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...surviving 14 years of incoming Pakistani fire. "Our crops spoiled, and our goats and cattle starved because we were too scared to go out, but nobody died. In the next village, a girl was killed and five houses destroyed." The return fire from Indian-held Kashmir gave Khan little comfort as it whined over his head, slid over the precipitous valley, and smashed into the Pakistani side of Kashmir a kilometer away. "Most of my family lives over there. I just hope they were hiding like...
...third encounter with Sri Lankan pachyderms in less than a week, and though we escaped by crazily zigzagging in reverse, this one was rather close for comfort. "You're very fortunate," said Premaratna, our septuagenarian guide. "I've never seen so many herds assembled at one time." He estimated that there were about 1,000 elephants graying the grassy expanse that is the Minneriya-Giritale Sanctuary?about a third of the country's wild-elephant population...
...marching, stop marching. Come back to me." The command has a moral authority that overrules any that General Lee could issue, and Inman must follow it. For the ultimate goal of many a warrior is to get home to his woman--to lay down his arms and find comfort in hers...
Many of us took comfort in those scientific reports that suggested that a little wine with dinner was good for our health. But a new study may spoil our pleasure. It found that moderate alcohol intake (one or two drinks a day) did not lower middle-aged drinkers' risk of having a stroke, as previously reported, and may actually cause the brain to shrink. Maybe the StairMaster is better than that second glass of wine after...
...York City and has returned to the rural northeast of England to write a book about the depiction of war and to nurse the lingering emotional wounds of a marriage that coincidentally died on the same day the towers fell. Settling down not far from Kate, Stephen finds comfort in the arms of Justine, the much younger daughter of the local vicar. Kate, meanwhile, takes on Justine's ex-boyfriend Peter as her studio assistant, only to discover that Peter is a very unnerving young...