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...easy to forget that the Gulf War isn't over. Since the mother of all battles ended in apparent success 10 years ago this month, the U.S. has been engaged in protracted low-intensity combat to bring the conflict to final victory. Washington has unloosed a raft of modern weapons--economic sanctions, an arms embargo, weapons inspections, money for opposition groups, no-fly zones and the occasional bombing--to unseat Saddam Hussein. To no avail. The vexing enemy left in position in 1991 by the first President Bush has managed ever since to keep the Iraqi threat alive...
Yuen Wo-ping is known to international audiences as the man behind The Matrix, for which he devised the vertiginous virtual hand combat and flying feats that made the movie a gut as well as a head experience. He has won further acclaim for Crouching Tiger, and he was the one person who could say no to the world-class director making his first action film, which happened on more than one occasion. No wonder: the script would read, "They fight," leaving the overall conception to Lee and the hard work of realizing it to Yuen. "When I'm working...
...easy to forget that the Gulf War isn't over. Since the mother of all battles ended in apparent success 10 years ago this month, the U.S. has been engaged in protracted low-intensity combat to bring the conflict to final victory. Washington has unloosed a raft of modern weapons - economic sanctions, an arms embargo, weapons inspections, money for opposition groups, no-fly zones and the occasional bombing - to unseat Saddam Hussein. To no avail. The vexing enemy left in position in 1991 by the first President Bush has managed ever since to keep the Iraqi threat alive...
Museums are taking steps to combat decreased attendance, including everything from visitor surveys at the Children's Museum to a concentrated programming effort at the Gardner...
...skipping a generation. That would be improving on the existing generation of combat aircraft. What would be skipping a generation would be to say we don't need a man in that cockpit, and instead develop a drone operated by a sergeant hundreds of miles away on land with some of the same capability as the F-22. A true next generation of weapons would break with some longstanding traditions, such as the idea that there has to be someone in the cockpit of a fighter plane. The F-22 is so capital-intensive that no other country can play...