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Around the corner, the soldier who had been closest to the explosion, Private First Class Ratu Waqa Mawi, 26, of Fiji, called out. "This place," he said, jabbing his gun at a large stone house. "I saw him go in there." After his sergeant blew the lock off the door with a shotgun, "Maui Wowy" as he is known, raced into the house, screaming with fury. In a cool, dim room, he found his attacker - a 19-year old with a pubescent mustache, in a red and black Real Madrid tracksuit - sitting on a couch between two older women...
...women stopped screaming, the soldiers zip-cuffed the young man and led him into the street. They made him kneel against a wall and swabbed his hands and pockets for residual explosive materials. The test came up positive. Back in the house, a sergeant pointed this out to the young man's father, who continued to insist that there had been some mistake. "But we saw him, too, guy," said the sergeant...
...young to remember firsthand the horrors inflicted in the name of a reunited Ireland - or of preserving the Union - she knows the paramilitaries used to mete out summary justice to the kinds of petty criminals and thugs who scare her. Social deprivation has always been the best recruiting sergeant for terrorism...
...constant flux since the first version of the technology was invented. With subsequent evolution of storage formats, music has come to be valued in accord with technology pricing. 20-somethings from all of the last four generations have awoken one day to see their copy of “Sergeant Pepper’s the Lonely Hearts Club Band” drop precipitously in value since they first bought it: from vinyl to 8-track to cassette to CD. Quality of sound has changed in that time, leading to changes in prices, but the music that has made the leap...
...even these super-tailored workouts may not be enough. As it turns out, while the Smheart Link plays digital drill sergeant in my new life, the Bodybugg ($249 for the device, plus a recurring monthly fee) acts as the CIA, surreptitiously monitoring my caloric burn. The Bodybugg is a collection of sensors that measure such things as motion, body heat and sweat 32 times per second, then run the data through an algorithm. The company says the calorie estimate is better than 90% accurate. I also recommend getting the optional digital display wristband ($100), which syncs to the Bodybugg...