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...their combat gear and are quickly bucking along the Chevy track in their humvees. The platoon heads to a hilltop overlooking the ridges that's wide enough for the humvees and, if needed, for a medevac helicopter to land. The hilltop also has a clean firing line. The vehicles pull up, and company commander Captain Ryan Worthan fans his men out into the scrub pines and along the wadis, to stalk the enemy. In one wadi, Sergeant Christopher McGurk sees footprints and the remains of a fire. He makes a decision that, in the end, probably saves 20 lives: sensing...
...America's heartland, geeks and grandparents and good ole boys alike are signing up for wi-fi access in the last place you would expect: RV parks. Whether they pull up in $10,000 campers or $300,000 McMansions on wheels, the nation's mobile nomads are using 802.11b, the wireless Web standard, to work and play, to bank, to check their stock portfolios or just to stay in touch with loved ones from the road. Ditch those old stereotypes about RV parks, says Eric Stumberg, co-founder of the start-up TengoInternet, based in Austin, Texas, which supplies...
...there. The channel has another show that casts gay men as lifestyle gurus. Starting Nov. 19, Straight Dates by Gay Mates sends two gay men on a mission to find true love for a hopeful (and sometimes hopeless) single gal. The dynamic duo, Max and Michael, will pull men off the street, send them on a date with that week's Lonely Heart and watch the date from a secret room, all the better to tell the lady where she goes wrong. The idea is to bring a woman's gay best friend to the small screen. "Because we tell...
...book nor the in-flight movies are holding your attention. You're sick of playing solitaire on your laptop. Now's the perfect time, then, to try meditating (if you read TIME's recent cover story, you know that millions worldwide already do). Just put on the eye mask, pull up the blanket and empty your mind. Whether you manage five minutes or 50, a session will help reduce stress and get you to your destination in a better mood. Everyone will think you're snoozing but you're actually meditating on these selected insights from Eastern spiritual sources, past...
...rock songs have had a harder time inscribing themselves on the collective consciousness in the same way that hip-hop songs do: hip-hop is simply better to dance to, and dancing is a great memory aid. But The Strokes are doing more than most rock bands to pull rock fans out of their sullen corners and onto the dance floor. They may be the most universally popular pop rock band since U2’s glory days in the ’80s, from whence they stole the introduction...