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...offer audiotapes of donors and photo matching--a process by which the bank will find a donor who resembles a photo, often of a partner, submitted by the client. Xytex Corp. of Augusta, Ga., goes so far as to offer adult photos and even videos of willing donors. "We shoot them in the clinic in an interview format and also get them in their own environment, with a favorite instrument, say, or just walking in the park," says p.r. director David Towles. Xytex is one of the few that offer so-called identity-release donors, men who agree to allow...
...Taliban has three command posts in the trench line that winds along the ridge. Early on, a tank shell scores a direct hit on the post on the right flank, but the center and the left prove harder to crack. "Shoot at the ones straight ahead. I can't see the ones on the left," Hassan tells Bashir, his tank commander, over the radio. The T-55 fires again. Twenty minutes into the attack, the shelling tempo increases; there is an explosion every couple of seconds. At 3:55 the Alliance troops on the right flank say the Taliban...
...region, with A-10s on the way. If U.S. gunships take to the skies above Kabul, the Taliban will likely raid what is left of their stash of 250 antiaircraft Stinger missiles?arms sent to the mujahedin in the mid-'80s by the CIA?to try to shoot the Americans down...
...When a young state-trained Beijing martial artist named Jet Li arrived at the temple in 1980 to shoot a movie, Yan Ming "barely noticed him." Two years later, none of the monks could afford to be so aloof. Shaolin Temple, the film that made Jet Li, remade Shaolin. Suddenly the temple was swarming with visitors?both tourists and wannabe Jet Lis. The Chinese government, now aware of Shaolin's lucrative allure, resolved to rescue it from its exile in ideological ignominy. Crumbled buildings were resurrected. Secular martial-arts training academies sprang up around the temple's walls to cater...
...Afghanistan, U.S. commanders surmised that bin Laden--like the men he has dispatched on his errands of suicidal terror--would rather endure a fiery death than be captured by the infidels. He has reportedly instructed his closest aides, including his son, to give him the glory of martyrdom and shoot him if the Americans came knocking...