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...military was quite proud of what it had done in this tiny hamlet tucked among orchards and snowcapped ridges north of Kandahar. In what appeared to be a perfect sneak attack, U.S. special-operations soldiers on Jan. 24 stormed Sharzam High School in Uruzgan. That same night, another unit conducted a similar commando raid at a military compound a mile away. In all, the soldiers killed 21 Afghans, who the U.S. claimed were Taliban, captured an additional 27 and destroyed troves of weapons and ammunition. All that, and only one U.S. soldier was hurt--and just barely...
...beginnings of the slowdown elsewhere in the economy had companies searching for ways to save on travel. A conventional system like Polycom's ViewStation 512 can receive multiple video calls and allow data transmission with connections that look and sound like network television. In 1994 a less capable unit cost about $70,000. Today a corporation could equip four offices for less than...
...didn’t think it was a 5-2 game,” Mazzoleni said. “I liked the way our kids played. They kept their focus and played as a unit of five...
...fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit at the embassy: "It looked like somebody did it so we'd come running out and step on the mine...
...years ago, Haier noticed that American college students wanted locks on fridge doors and that hotels wanted an auto-defrost feature. The big manufacturers weren't delivering. So Haier did, and added style to the mix, making iceboxes in different colors and producing a sleek stainless steel unit. Haier's fridges aren't the cheapest. But the firm has captured 40% of U.S. sales and forced manufacturers like Sanyo to play catch...