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Granted, Lifetime's highest-rated series ever, which takes place on a Stateside base, never sets a dusty foot in the combat zone. It's a guilty pleasure first, soapy and clichéd; there's rarely an emotional moment without a big-eyed kid or a Jude Johnstone ballad to cue the waterworks. There are affairs, alcoholism and girl-talk sessions in which the characters chat about nicknaming their "lady parts" ("my fine china," for instance...
...flagpole, nearly 4 million viewers a week saluted. Why? It's studiously apolitical--"Their battle goes beyond politics, beyond religion, race or gender," a wife says about soldiers now at war--but so was Over There. It's soapy, but Over There was too, with affairs and home-base family dramas along with the IED blasts...
...boots and a cream-colored sweater, puts down his AK-47 rifle and stands before his small prayer mat, his head bowed for the early evening ritual. Behind him is a simple one-man hut next to a swing gate. It is the entrance to a sealed-off hillside base, one of many that have sprung up over the last year in the rugged mountains and stony valleys around Rihan, a southern Lebanese village. The entrance to another no-go zone, along a rutted dirt track, is advertised by a sign that reads: WARNING. ACCESS TO THIS AREA IS FORBIDDEN...
...Carnoustie, where the British Open returns on July 19, lies less than 500 yds. (503 m) from an army firing range and some 15 mi. (24 km) from an air force base. Machine-gun fire echoes around the property. Fighter jets roar overhead. On one of the facility's three courses, each hole is named after a historic battle, and on the 157-year-old Championship Course - the longest and most difficult Open venue in Britain - a water-filled ditch zigzags through the course like a World War I trench, and cavernous sand traps dot the landscape like bomb craters...
...modern technique. The mechanism of today's golf swing, employed by Tiger Woods and most of his contemporaries, goes against a fundamental understanding in all sports, stretching back to Greek ideals, that the body must act in unison. In the modern swing, the shoulders turn around a stable base like a coiled spring, building tension and potential energy, which unleashes a powerful, unerring ball flight. For years, golfers had turned their upper and lower bodies together, twisting back and then unwinding like a screw. It was a messy affair, which generated minimal power...