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Over at C Company headquarters, Beets' unit, the captain is Todd (T.K.) Kelly, who manages to appear both sharp and relaxed, as close to cool as regulations allow. Not that it touches his ears, but his hair is probably the longest in the company. At 31, he is a dozen years older than some of his 140 men--women can't serve in infantry units like this--and has been a soldier longer than that if you count his years at West Point. C Company Private Adam Harting is six months out of high school, with wide blue eyes...
...send anything special that you want to keep forever, First Sergeant Robert Wilson advises at a meeting Wednesday night. He explains that before his unit went into action in Desert Storm, the soldiers bulldozed an eight-foot trench in the sand, tossed in every piece of personal gear they owned and set it on fire. That way captured soldiers would not have family photos or letters that could be used against them by interrogators--and it also insured that any space in their vehicles that could hold water, ammo or food would not be wasted on a Walkman...
...dangerous as any other. Beets is a grenadier, in charge of four other soldiers who would go into battle crammed, like bullets in a magazine, into the tiny, noisy, jouncing rear compartment of a Bradley fighting vehicle. Their job is to clear enemy forces before the rest of the unit arrives...
...Bhutan imposes on tourists. But Khyentse Norbu proved a persuasive negotiator. In a country where 20% of the population are monks or nuns, karma is taken seriously and no one likes to refuse a request made by a rinpoche of Khyentse Norbu's rank. His American and Australian production unit received permission to enter the country for free, and shooting proceeded from September until late November...
...When China was under the ultra-rigid control of Chairman Mao?with every adult reporting to a work unit or a nosy neighborhood committee?people could barely get away with bicycle theft. That overly restrained but safe China is now long gone. Big Brother isn't watching so carefully anymore (unless you're a political dissident) and tens of millions of Chinese are on the move, wandering to different parts of the country in search of jobs. Society is all shook up, and anonymity is now possible for the first time, especially in immigrant magnets like Wuhan...