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...dust and confusion. As troops on the two other APCs continued firing, the lone medic among the 15 soldiers on the patrol climbed up the back ramp into the compartment. "'Holy s___!' was the first thing out of his mouth, and it looked like his eyes were about to pop out of his head," Wyatt remembers. "That's kind of disheartening when he's talking about...
...least $75 billion a year on beauty and fashion. Avon hopes the new line, which goes global in 2005, will ring up $100 million in sales in its first year. So far more than 16,000 reps have distributed 25 million Mark catalogs, which featured MTV VJs and the pop singer Jewel on the first two covers...
...More than five decades have passed since the end of Japan's occupation of China. Chinese middle-school students may now groove along to Japanese pop songs, but wartime atrocities are still drummed into their heads in heavy-handed textbooks. Students are encouraged to remember Japan's unwillingness to apologize candidly for its wartime behavior. Little wonder that Li Li, a 21-year-old history student at Northwest who did not see the Japanese skit, said she felt that "clearly the offense was deliberate. They designed it to insult the audience. No one, including the dancers themselves, could have found...
...noisy singalong - can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq. Aparisim Ghosh I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad. Alex Perry Perhaps the best number was: Why Can't We Be Friends? by War, which photographer Bob Nickelsberg and I (and our taxi driver) sang along...
...installed his 30-year-old son James, pictured, as chief executive. Dad's News Corporation is BSkyB's largest shareholder, so giving the kid a job was easy, but it infuriated financial groups that own the rest of BSkyB's stock. Some are worried James will funnel cash to pop's firm rather than pay dividends. Iain Richards of Morley Fund Management told TIME he is "dismayed" by James' crowning and criticizes BSkyB for "the structure of the board, the extensive related-party transactions with News Corporation, remuneration...