Word: arcs
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...seen it all?and endured the throngs that pack most vacation spots?the vast horizons of the northern steppe offer the perfect opportunity to get away from the familiar. Not to be confused with the independent country of Mongolia to the north, Inner Mongolia lies in a giant arc just beyond the Great Wall, stretching from Manchuria in the east all the way west to Xinjiang?and occupying nearly one-eighth of China's land mass...
Even when the B-52 started circling overhead in a slow, white-tailed arc, Karzai was unperturbed. All morning U.S. bombers and fighter planes had been hammering Taliban positions several miles away at the Kandahar airport. Then suddenly Karzai's world blew apart. The mud walls of his office shook as if they were turning to dust, and the windows blasted in, cutting his face with flying glass. Just a few hundred yards away, a stray 2,000-lb. bomb from the American plane had slammed down. The same bomb killed three American servicemen, as well as seven Afghans, including...
...outbreak in May 2000. But the arrival of the 750 Laskar fighters on July 19 this year decisively tilted the balance on the island and introduced a professional military element in their deliberate campaign to sweep Christians, who make up 60% of the region's population, out of an arc of villages surrounding the disputed town of Poso, where the fighting began...
...Rhode Island. Syracuse struck first, however, when Julie McBride, the Big East's leading scorer, sunk her first shot of the game to give Syracuse a 2-0 lead. Peljto would answer right back on the next possession for the Crimson, draining a three from the top of the arc...
Delaney-Smith thought the Crimson was allowing easy baskets outside. The Huskies shot 6-of-12 behind the arc in the first half but just 1-of-7 in the second half...