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...where all the newfangled gadgetry comes in. A burst of buying in the past three years has given China a high-tech capability it never had before. China has added quiet-running submarines to its already extensive underwater fleet, as well as powerful anti-ship missiles and top-gun fighter jets, mostly supplied by Russia. In so doing, China is creating pockets of military excellence to address "real-world scenarios like coercing Taiwan back to negotiations or deterring U.S. action," says Thomas Christensen, a military expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taiwan has nervously taken notice of the threat...
...increasingly express concern about the plight of Kashmiris. Mahmood's brother Tahir says he began to hate his job at a clinic, eventually quitting to join Islamic groups. One day, Mahmood asked his family for permission to go to Kashmir. "My father's initial reaction," relates Tahir, a onetime fighter himself, "was neutral?not bad, not good. But later he reckoned (Mahmood) had done the right thing...
Randy A. Wittreich is a volunteer fire fighter with the Rivervale, N.J. volunteer fire company...
...workers have been drawn to her spot in the vast acres of destruction by a fire fighter's uniform. Civilian clothes blend with the rubble, but reflective bands in the uniforms stand out. There is a uniform just below Genelle: the soft man. It takes 20 long minutes, and then she is saved...
...their mission and to avoid using up all their ammunition. Mortar shells and machine-gun rounds were running short, but the roar of air strikes and the concussions of 2,000-lb. bombs in the mountains were good for morale. B-52 bombers, F-16 and F-18 fighter-bombers, and AC-130 and AH-64 gunships were pulverizing caves and crags. Perez's men set their M-4s to fire single shots instead of three-bullet bursts. "Perez was controlling his rates of fire, pointing out targets, just doing an awesome job," Grippe says. Kraft, the company commander...