Word: desertions
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...acres on the Danby site, where core samples have assured them there is good marble to be found. Locals are worried about mine creep, however, with the pit growing wider as markets for marble grow bigger. Reddy (who has some environmental expertise, having served on a desert-land-use panel to which he was appointed by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt) believes there are ways to make the mine in Danby less of an eyesore. Building grassy berms around the dig can conceal it, although only from people viewing it from lower ground. Omya also hopes that technological advances will...
...like blood sports with supper, Beloye Solntse Pustyni (White Sun of the Desert, also the name of a Soviet cult film) has cockfights on Monday along with good traditional Central Asian dishes such as plov, a rice pilaf with chicken and seasonings...
...hour to find the Phillips Reading Room after having to ask three library employees and after the benevolent assistance of somebody else lost in the library,” said Andre M. Penalver ’06. “I felt like the Jews wandering through the desert for 40 years...
...munitions taking out discrete buildings they had targeted. Today's smart bombs make the old ones look dim-witted. What's more, newer smart bombs are far cheaper and easier to use, so there would be a lot more of them raining down on Iraqi targets. In 1991's Desert Storm, precision-guided munitions accounted for 7% of the bombs used. That share jumped to 30% in 1999's Kosovo conflict and to 60% in Afghanistan last year. Pentagon officials say they would aim for 100% in the opening days of any war with Iraq...
MARKET DAYS A bone-jarring two-day jeep ride across Kyrgyzstan's border with China lies Kashgar, a hub on the Silk Road for more than a millennium. Camel trains laden with tea and textiles would emerge from the Taklamakan Desert, meeting other traders descending from the lofty Pamir Mountains, all survivors of terrible deprivation and brigandage. The glory days might be long gone but so are the bandits, and Kashgar welcomes ordinary tourists eager to see Central Asia's most spectacular market...