Word: fragment
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...Travelers usually stop overnight in the Shi'a enclave of Kargil?a fragment of Muslim Central Asia that somehow materialized in India. From there, a mountainous wonderland unfolds. The road wanders past Lamayuru monastery (looming amid somber peaks that belong on the cover of some fantasy novel), skirts Alchi monastery (with its incomparable 12th century frescoes), and then it's on to Leh, where the crumbling royal palace towers over rooftop pizza restaurants. More monasteries dot the surrounding valley, along with turquoise lakes and rows of whitewashed Buddhist chortens...
...billion-year journey. Formed at the same time as the planets of our solar system, the extraterrestrial missile originally lay at the core of a small asteroid. Then, some time in its voyage through the silent vacuum of space, a chance collision with another asteroid shattered it, sending this fragment hurtling toward its meeting with Earth 300,000 years...
...take place. Several Montagnards, including Ksor's uncle and mother, have denounced him in the state-controlled media. Dak Lak officials screened for TIME four minutes of edited video footage in which some protesters indeed advance on riot police and militiamen, but it's impossible to tell from the fragment who started the clashes, and the rest of the tape wasn't made available. Gia Lai Governor Pham The Dung even goes so far as to compare the protesters to Iraqi insurgents. "Terrorism does not mean they have to use explosives," he says. "They could even use martial arts." Scores...
...well-known pilot and writer of the best-selling books Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince, has been one of aviation's great mysteries since he disappeared on July 31, 1944, after being sent to observe German troop movements. A serial number found on a fragment of the underwater wreck confirmed the plane was Saint-Exup...
...Lees always write together, by a process remarkably similar to preparing a dish. One brother begins a piece, then passes the fragment to the other by e-mail. The other modifies, adds and sends it back. Sometimes one is writing in New York while the other is in South Carolina taking orders for peanuts. Even when they are in the same city—or even the same apartment—the brothers still do their collaboration via e-mail...