Word: daybreak
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...show up early last week. On Monday, 34 corpses were found. In the darkness of Tuesday morning, 15 more men, between the ages of 22 and 40 were found in the back of a pickup truck in the al-Khadra district of western Baghdad. They had been hanged. By daybreak, 40 more bodies were found around the city, most bearing signs of torture before the men were killed execution-style. The most gruesome discovery was an 18-by-24-foot mass grave in the Shi'ite slum of Kamaliyah in east Baghdad containing the bodies of 29 men, clad only...
...Davids Killory: Daybreak Grove The proportion of America's homeless population consisting of families with children increased 30% during 1993, according to a report issued last week. Which makes Daybreak Grove, a tiny but splendid attempt in the San Diego exurb of Escondido to give a few impoverished families homes, all the more heartening. The project shows that low-income housing need not be dreary or demeaning: this is a lively and dignified piece of tightly woven architecture. Architects Christine Killory and her partner, Chilean-born Rene Davids, have used as their central idea a traditional Latin American form: each...
...Helicopters offer the only means of reaching mountain villages and hamlets stranded by rockslides and the ultra-maneuverable Blackhawk is ideal for threading up the winding river courses at the bottom of narrow and steep valleys. McFadden and the others carried out as many missions as they could between daybreak to sundown. They were grounded temporarily on Tuesday afternoon when thunder and hail lashed the region. Otherwise, they have constantly ferried foreign rescue workers up into the mountains to dig for survivors in villages that melted away like sand castles when the earthquake hit. McFadden and his colleagues dumped...
Still, Turner and his men are eager to join the operation. Driving all night along riverbeds and dirt tracks, the convoy reaches its destination at daybreak. A pickup carrying Afghan troops has flipped over, injuring two soldiers, so Turner is down several men. Gates, the least injured passenger in the bombed humvee, insists on coming along. "I wasn't that shaken," says Gates. "I was just pissed that I didn't have a truck anymore. I wanted to do something...
...warm, cloudless day, when his visitors disembarked from their boat, bringing supplies of rice, bottled water and betel nut, Gasa thanked them for the gifts. Now, in a wavering voice, he recalls the war as the most terrible time of his life. "We could hear bombs all night until daybreak," Gasa says through interpreter Neboty Turukevu, a Solomon Islands police officer who is linked by marriage to the patriarch known locally as "the old man." "We were so lucky that not too many of our people were killed during the war," he adds. To this day Gasa harbors a hatred...