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...back a safe distance. Slowly, the winch on the back of a recovery truck started hauling in the stricken vehicle. The cables groaned and creaked and the pins started to pull out of the earth, but after 20 minutes the truck lurched from the ditch and collapsed in a heap on the road...
...chose mostly B’s, your study style is...“Dining Hall Ditz.” You sit in the dining hall amidst a growing heap of half-eaten bagels and half-finished cups of coffee, and you spend more time complaining about how much you work you have than actually doing it. The thing is, I am sitting next to you. And it is annoying. So shut...
...first sign that we are entering a dead zone is the carcass of a camel, gathering flies and red dust. Since camels can go for three weeks without water, according to local farmers, the heap of fur, hair and bleached bones is an ominous sight. We enter a mud-walled, straw-roofed village. Instead of offering the usual smiles and waves, the children duck away. The reason for the villagers' fear becomes evident a few minutes later: nine turbaned men on horseback, members of the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, appear with rifles over their shoulders. We are gone...
...MSNBC are airing interviews with professional psychiatrists who prattle on about “alienation.” As if alienation could explain why a man felt licensed to execute 33 innocent people on a foggy April morning, killing not only his ex-girlfriend but an indiscriminate heap of young students and professors...
...main street of Kukundu in the Solomon Islands to meet some friends when he felt the earth pitch and tremble under his feet. The 18-year-old student saw the stilts under a nearby house collapse, and then the small kitchens attached to two others fell into a heap...