Word: caravans
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...Pakistani counterpart Muzaffarabad last week, despite an earlier bomb attack on the route and a gun attack on a building housing the Indian passengers in Srinagar. The safe arrival of the buses' 49 passengers was taken as a symbol of warming ties between the fractious neighbors. "The caravan of peace has started," declared Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
...still a bit rough around the edges. A circular saw lies on the floor in front of the sound system in the back, and speakers are stacked haphazardly to the left in front of a torn leather couch. A bench seat from an old employee’s Dodge Caravan sits against the center display, enticing the tired shopper. The entire ceiling is plastered not with insulation, but old records...
...breakup, many lack both the capacity for magnanimity and the clear-headedness to focus on the best interests of another person, even their own child. As Bryant said in a recent speech, couples who appear in her court tend to carry "with them not just baggage, but an entire caravan of family values, views and expectations." For every mother who, filled with spite, does all she can to limit her ex-husband's time with his children, there's a father who doesn't show up when he should or defaults on child support. Maybe he's stopped caring...
...Beijing and a portrait of the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Cresques doesn't skimp on detail. He crams each of the Atlas' eight leaves with brilliant illuminations of myths (both biblical and classical), Kings, flags, ships and monsters, as well as the first known depiction of a Silk Road caravan, with caped traders' riding camels across the Taklimakan desert in what is now China's Xinjiang province...
...Soon she will be joined by others from Tawila. Once a bustling caravan stop, Tawila is now a ghost town, the vast majority of its 55,000 inhabitants having fled. They dot the road to Al Fashir, on donkey and on foot, desperate to cover the 40 miles of desert scrub before their food runs out or they are attacked. Those that remain are too old or sick or poor to leave, and food is running short...