Word: curfewed
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...thetomb. Custody shifted to a complex scheme granting each side access to parts or all of the tomb on different days but avoiding their meeting. Since the latest intifadeh, the arrangement continues, but the site, hedged about with checkpoints and razor wire in a neighborhood under strict military curfew, presents a message of piety inextricable from violence and mistrust...
...boarded a crowded No. 4 bus in the heart of Tel Aviv. Before the driver could sell him a ticket, the man detonated his deadly payload, killing six and wounding more than 60. The double blows came just hours after the Israel Defense Forces lifted its three-month-long curfew in some West Bank cities and towns, following six weeks of relative calm in Israel. "As soon as we ease the pressure, they're getting ready for another attack," complained a senior Israeli intelligence official...
...Strict rules at Orange County forbid venturing into the fields and neighboring forests between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. The nocturnal trumpeting of wild elephants foraging for food at a nearby lake helps explain the curfew. But once the danger has passed, the grounds offer rich rewards to nature lovers. The plantation is a bird-watcher's paradise. Ubiquitous wooden signposts display names and illustrations of the various species that are permanent or migratory residents, including the golden oriole (seen only in November), the cattle egret (spotted from January through September) and the black bittern (prevalent July through September...
...enforced routine may even bring some of the most symptomatic kids into line. Teens, who are expected to do a lot more self-policing than younger children, must take more of this responsibility on themselves, even if that means a no-excuses adherence to a no-exceptions curfew...
...plan raises divisions aplenty on the Palestinian side, too. Those under curfew in the West Bank cities will see little to cheer in a "Gaza-first" cease-fire, and even Arafat's own cabinet was divided over whether to accept Ben Eliezer's offer. Gaza is a stronghold of Hamas, whose political standing continues to grow at the expense of Arafat's own Fatah movement. The PA's approach to implementing a cease-fire there may depend, in large part, on securing Hamas's agreement to such a step, on the basis that both sides would prefer to avoid...