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...houses have been reconnected to the electrical grid. But neighborhoods in the northeast and southeast--the two main entry points for last year's invasion--are filled with rubble piles and buildings whose top stories have been blasted off. For every reconstruction project, there is a pile of cinder blocks where a house used to be. The military has closed the city to the outside world, allowing people in only after they show ID cards that they are residents of Fallujah. The Marines man five entry checkpoints, turning away anyone who can't provide proper credentials or who seems suspicious...
...lived where my family’s lived for generations. The paint on the wood siding is chipped, and there are old, rusting cars in the backyard, right next to the metal-roofed cinder block shed. No one noticed. So what if the power company cuts off the lights from time to time? The bill will get paid tomorrow, so you just go to bed at sundown. No big deal—or so I thought...
...Charlotte Simmons, a 676-page cinder block of a work, attempts to accurately portray, in typical Wolfian anthropological style, life at an elite university. Its failure as a work of journalistic fiction does not stem solely from its carefully sketched out but nonetheless hopelessly clichéd characters, but also from its moral judgment of these characters as if they are objective examples of contemporary youth...
Attention college shoppers. You too, Mom and Dad. The days of using cinder blocks to loft the bed, remnant carpeting to cover the floor and the oldest sheets in the linen closet to adorn the dorm-room bunk have gone the way of the slide rule. This year the university set is expected to have spent $26 billion on back-to-college wares, including clothes, books, stereos and computers. But fully $1 out of every $10 spent--$2.6 billion--went into decorating the dorm. Today's college send-offs, who have watched their parents refinance and remodel their homes...
Israel says it wants to pull its troops out of Rafah--but only as far as the Egyptian border, because it is still determined to plug the weapons pipeline. The tunnels are dug under cinder-block tenements in Shabourah, the refugee camp in Rafah. Home to 90,000 Palestinians, the camp once extended to the border, but dozens of refugee homes have been demolished over the course of the intifadeh to build a 300-yd. buffer zone between camp and border to thwart smugglers. Now, Israeli military officials tell TIME, they hope to extend the buffer to 900 yds., which...