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...took a month to ship 24 Apache helicopters 800 miles from Germany to Albania. It vowed to transform itself into a lighter fighting force. It is spending $4 billion for a fleet of light, wheeled armored vehicles to be carried to battle aboard moderate-size but plentiful C-130 cargo planes. To keep the Crusader relevant, the Army wants to shrink the two-vehicle system from its current 110 tons to a relatively svelte 80 tons. But each system will still require a gigantic C-5 or C-17 cargo plane to ferry it to war in a hurry...
...original buy of 1,138 systems down to 480, for $11 billion. Army generals boast they have turned the program around "nearly on a dime" and that the gun will be ideal for everything "from small-scale contingencies to full combat." But it will still require huge cargo planes to get to war quickly. They may be able to fly a little farther with the lighter Crusader. Perhaps the perfect plane for the Crusader would be one capable of flying it back to the era from which it came...
...fall as his one honest meal ticket, the U.S. Army, shipped home the last of its intervention forces. "I may have to join my friends and be a welder," he said--not just any welder but a narco welder, who refits ships to hide drugs. Marnet walked to a cargo vessel, where two large generators powered the torches he said his pals were using to solder double hulls and other secret compartments. On a matchbox, he drew the designs they were following. He then pointed to their nearby bosses, who were opening Samsonite suitcases stuffed with cash in full view...
...only appropriate that DAVID BLAINE's first words on emerging after 61 hours of standing entombed in a giant block of ice were, "Ow! Ow!" Blaine, a self-proclaimed "mystifier," entered his glacial prison on ABC's Good Morning America on Nov. 27 wearing only cargo pants, a wool hat and boots. He either forgot a shirt or figured his smokin'-hot abs would keep him warm. Unexpectedly balmy conditions, however, made the ice cave unstable, and doctors implored Blaine to don an emergency sweater. Reluctantly, he obliged. Skip ahead 60 hours: Blaine made his egress during a live...
Acela will offer passengers roomier seats, beer on tap and midtown-to-midtown travel at $120 to $143 one-way in coach. Gone are the dreary, cargo-like conditions inside. Thin slits of glass that once shut out the light have been replaced by oversize windows, and the tiny, smelly toilets have been transformed into spacious, bright rest rooms. Still, creaky infrastructure will prevent Acela from reaching its top speed most of the trip, but it should cruise consistently at around 100 to 120 m.p.h., more than enough, in Amtrak's mind, to change people's travel habits...