Word: crumping
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...gathering darkness, we stand staring out toward Talib lines. Save for the occasional crump of a mortar or burst of tracer fire the front is quiet. Then toward 7 p.m. the evening exodus begins. Since the start of U.S. air strikes against targets in Kabul, there has been a nightly parade of vehicles from the city. On what they call the New Road, in front of the base, convoys of trucks, pickups and armored vehicles cross a low pass, their headlights visible as they head toward villages behind the Bagram front...
...escaped the notice of opportunistic entrepreneurs. One company is offering celebrities a chance to copyright their genes, so no one will be able to clone them while they're not looking. "Michael Jordan's sweaty towel and Madonna's sunglasses contain traces of their DNA," says Andre Crump of the DNA Copyright Institute, based in San Francisco. "It could be used to create an unauthorized clone." For $1,500, Crump will provide celebs with a (c) on their genes. Of course, a symbol isn't necessary to prove that anyone's DNA is unique. Maybe that's why no celebs...