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On Wednesday, when asked why the Libyan rebels were retreating, one of their spokesmen, Colonel Ahmed Bany, said archly, “You are obviously well aware of the difference between a tank and a Kalashnikov.” It could be the difference between victory and defeat. The rebels have repeatedly emphasized their relative hopelessness in squaring off against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, using only an apparently large supply of light arms, including AK-47s, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
The pregnancy-center clinic, with its new ultrasound machine, has been open only since December, but already the staff can count the women who came in considering an abortion and changed their minds: five women converted, six lives saved, they declare, since one was carrying twins. “They connected,” nurse Joyce Wilson says, recalling the reaction of the women who saw the filmy image of their fetus onscreen
East Libya’s rebels are fighters, but they’re not an army.
Mike Radlauer stumbled across the Nespresso machine during a demonstration in a gourmet shop in SoHo in New York City.
A crew member aboard a U.S.
The Obama administration has dramatically ratcheted up the American drone warfare program in Pakistan.
Stephan Mace of the Army’s 61st Cavalry Regiment knew the Taliban would be waiting for him when he returned to eastern Afghanistan in September.
The flag-draped coffins of at least four U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S
What’s hot off the presses this week? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain.
MME goes to Beijing this week to find out if the fabled Silk Route is making a comeback.