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...Sadr to leave the shrine compound and disband his militia. And for hours that night, U.S. planes dropped bombs, gunships strafed rebel positions near the shrine, and tanks shelled militia hideaways as explosions filled the sky over the Old City with billowing smoke and a deadly orange glow. U.S. military commanders said they were merely "shaping the battlefield" in case a frontal assault was ordered. But al-Sadr is adept at divining when to back down. On Friday he promised to "turn over the keys" of the sacred shrine to representatives of Sistani, the most revered Shi'ite religious leader...
...just flash by. Gazing into the darkness, I felt enveloped in nature’s immense power and my presence vanished in its embrace. It was silly even at the time, but I could not help but imagine the consequences of my car breaking down. As the glow was extinguished from my dashboard, and as the sound of the engine faded, I was trapped in silence and eternal darkness. I could neither see my hands on the steering wheel, nor see my feet on the pedals. I reached out, there was nothing to touch; I called out, there...
...tropical sky, night falls almost instantly, and the navigational instruments now cast a greenish glow around the skipper. A fixed-wing "Islander" heads back to base at Horn Island as a Coastwatch helicopter (or "helo") code-named Lima 51 flies in to assist in the search; a forward-looking infra-red (flir) detection system in the helo's nose checks out the hides that have been cut in the mangroves around the island. No luck. Returning to base, the helo calls in to report that it's clocked a vessel 10 nautical mi. away, at 108 degrees. There's restrained...
...slopes seem high after a few hours of traveling in only two dimensions, but a brief scramble over the rocks puts you on the lip. A wedge-tailed eagle, glossy black against the sunburnt sky, patrols the circumference in majestic sweeping curves. Chunks of broken sandstone glow a warm pale orange; welded under and around them are balls of rust-colored shale, their surfaces pitted and folded - oxidized remnants of the meteorite. New nickel-bearing minerals were found here, one named reevesite after the crater's discoverer...
...sight. The only sound is of water dripping somewhere. As he crouches on the slimy ledge among the slender tips of stalactites, the torch light suddenly catches splashes of color on the chamber's far side. There are about 15 stencils, some in such a rich russet they almost glow against the pale limestone, silhouettes of adult hands both left and right, one with a forearm also stenciled, several others with curiously stunted splayed fingers, and some partly obscured by a serrated fringe of stalactites. The unmistakable outline of a child's hand sits slightly apart from and lower than...