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...inside a worn tent, a streak of morning light framing her pretty face in the smoky air. She smiles at the baby in her arms, and for a singular, brief moment she looks like a Madonna in the midst of hell. Her three elder children are sitting on a blanket set on the cold, damp ground. The eldest, a boy of seven, has a vacant look in his eyes, and he twitches every few seconds, like someone lost beyond the edge of pain. His younger brother and sister gaze at him, then look quickly away, a fog of panic filling...
...morning, men dug three small holes in the ground on the slopes of Dugen mountain, barely inside the Turkish border with Iraq and near the town of Uludere. Crying softly, a young woman approached through heavy rain, opened a blanket held close to her chest and handed the body of an infant swathed in a burial cloth to a man in a large turban. He laid the small body in a hole already filling with water; he and others shoveled in earth. The men crouched and, as one prayed aloud, murmured after him in low voices. Their faces, and those...
...when I got there." Insardi whipped off his shirt, swaddled the baby in it and rode with the child to the hospital. His own first child, a girl, was born four weeks ago. His strange encounter with the abandoned infant left him so shaken that he brought a receiving blanket knitted by his mother to the hospital...
...that size, making it smaller than the 1979-80 Gulf of Mexico spill at the offshore drilling rig known as Ixtoc I. Similarly, Carl Sagan's well-publicized prediction that smoke from the oil fires could rise 5 to 10 km (3 to 6 miles) to the stratosphere and blanket the globe has not yet come to pass. So far, the smoke clouds are hugging the ground, drifting in the prevailing westerlies only as far as Pakistan...
Pentagon officials claimed on Saturday that Saddam's forces had set fire to at least 200 oil wells -- which along with about 100 wells that were sabotaged earlier account for 25% of all such facilities in the country. Pilots returning from bombing missions reported that a blanket of thick smoke was covering all of the country south of Kuwait City, reaching from the gulf on the east to the Saudi border on the west...