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...person and maybe I should be out there killing guys, but that's not my mentality," Vukonich said. "It's not that I'm afraid of the rough stuff. I'd just rather take the puck and go with...
...Baghdad's military been weakened enough? Washington's goal has never been to liquidate Iraq's armed forces. Rather, the objective was to leave the country with enough military power to defend against hostile neighbors -- but not so much that it could continue to threaten them. A rough gauge of where that balance lies can be found in the military muscle of Iran and Syria, the two heavies that Iraq's forces must counterweigh. Iran commands 504,000 soldiers, 185 combat aircraft and perhaps 500 tanks. Syria has 404,000 troops, 558 combat planes and 4,000 tanks. Iraq...
...Science is the outgrowth of questions about the world: it's about why some things are smooth, rough and hard, and others melt," Layzer continues. "The way it is taught today turns off many creative people who are best equipped to be serious students of science...
...older American moviegoers, the archetypal Frenchman was a suave seducer: Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan. But French audiences preferred men of the earth -- Raimu, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo -- to men of the world. Depardieu, 42, is cut from this rough cloth. This versatile actor can play comical, tragical and historical, as well as pastoral, but his most famous roles are as peasants: the duped Jean de Florette, the mysterious Martin Guerre, the noble Olmo in Bertolucci's 1900. He has assayed the holy fools of French history and literature: Danton, Tartuffe and, in a recent triumph playing...
Should the ground war start, the biggest technological question mark may be the Army's M1 and M1A1 Abrams tanks, the most advanced armored vehicles ever built. The M1 features a 120-mm gun that can fire accurately even while the tank is running over rough terrain, thanks to a built-in ballistic computer and sophisticated stabilizers. Both models carry a chemical fire-suppression system that can put out a flame in a quarter of a second and are shielded by armor plates containing nonradioactive uranium 2 1/2 times as dense as steel. But some specialists fear that the tanks...