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...would mistake these camps for three-star hotels. Nothing is easy here. Blinding, unseasonably fierce dust storms are turning the sky apocalyptic orange. The wind and sand blast the skin and destroy tents. Rain turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags, but socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot...
SONY ERICSSON P800 This silver-and-blue gizmo looks like a phone with a camera fused onto its backside, but the P800 packs a surprisingly decent PDA (using the Symbian operating system) under its lid as well. I admit I had my doubts at first. The cheap, plastic stylus and the miniature virtual keyboard that pops up onscreen do not immediately inspire confidence. But with a little practice, anyone with good eyesight and a steady hand can get used to writing with it. The PC software that Sony Ericsson includes for loading MP3s onto the phone never did work...
...does the U.S. government think it's kidding by declaring an orange-level, high-risk alert [NATION, Feb. 24]? Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's urging Americans to get survival kits, plastic sheeting and duct tape was yet another sad attempt by the Bush Administration to get the American people to support an unjust war by heightening our anxiety. TED KEPES Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...Nation On Edge" depicted the U.S. as living in fear. This is not the America that I see and hear every day. The people buying duct tape and plastic sheeting are the same ones who waited in line to pay $4 a gallon for gas after 9/11. While Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are cowering in a cave or living in a bunker, the majority of Americans are living their daily lives without fear. On a recent trip, I saw a bumper sticker that sums it up best: AIN'T SKEERD. CURTIS TAYLOR Muncie...
...little bakery and café. Simple tables line one side of the room. Bright and cheerful paintings of scenes from Israel adorn the walls. Large brass enamel teapots and vases from Morocco, Marcus’s country of origin, sit high atop the shelves behind the counter. Strands of plastic ivy hang from floral decorations that sit on the shelves...