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...front door. Sometimes the signs are even more obvious. One house thought to be a Mahdi Army fighting position looks like a makeshift combat outpost. Barbed wire snakes across the top of the outside walls. A tree in the yard has a ladder leading to a lookout offering a wide view of the street. The windows are filled with bricks. But during a surprise search inside, Peterson's men find only a family claiming to know nothing about the Mahdi Army fighters coming and going from the place. "A lot of times I feel almost like I'm trying...
...click of high heels that gets our attention. The hospital is a place of aching feet in wide, thick rubber-bottomed, stand-all-day-long shoes. And our good women thus shod can't compete; in the weary, unaesthetic world of sick people they work too hard at tasks that are too unglamorous. Those good women were the first to warn us about the young lovelies in high heels. But the pharma babes still get to us, and the good women just roll their eyes...
...about some lunch," said McClung, popping her brown eyes wide open as she flashed me a big smile. It was an obvious effort to cheer me up, and I gratefully accepted. McClung put a cap over her straight red hair and led me to the chow hall. As we sat down to eat, she gave me an overview of the situation in Ramadi, where insurgents have control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah...
...human nature to anthropomorphize other life forms, even though they are only 200 nanometers wide. That is the width of newly discovered microbes that may be the smallest form of cellular life, according to a story in the New York Times this week. In "drainage water as caustic as battery acid," these hard-ass teeny-weenies have the flair to form "a pink scum on green pools...
...tech-addicted Asia, even a day without Internet access can trigger withdrawal. "I am depressed, very much so," wrote a blogger who calls himself Hong Kong Phooey after a Dec. 26 earthquake disrupted telecommunications across a wide swath of Asia. "No online games for me," wrote Phooey, "cannot download any new songs for my new player, cannot access my fantasy football league, no YouTube, cannot read or write blogs, and cannot get on Xbox Live 360." Another Hong Konger, 32-year-old consultant Josh Tse, reported feeling "some pain, some hollowness" after he found himself unable to update his blog...