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Still, while coalition forces took pains to safeguard Iraq's oil ministry in Baghdad, they left the nation's cultural heritage wide open. Raid Abdul Ridhar Muhammad, an Iraqi archaeologist, told the New York Times that at the height of the ransacking, he persuaded a U.S. Marine tank crew to come to the museum, where they fired over looters' heads, dispersing several thousand of them...
...which can be operated by a complement of 25 officers and crew. When one first approaches a freighter such as the M.V. Ingrid Oldendorff, its physicality is overwhelming. The poop deck, which houses the accommodations, common areas and the bridge, soars 51 meters from hull to antenna, the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa; the length from bow to stern is two proverbial American football fields, including the end zones. Davien and I were the only noncrew passengers aboard (supernumeraries, in the lingo of the sea), so we had a vast expanse of tranquil time and space...
...filled with snow, with leaves, with tents and with anti-war protesters. There have been changes for the better (one less C[h]ore, Brain Break, a newly air-conditioned Widener) and changes for the worse (the demise of Store 24, grade in/deflation). We came to school at the height of the dot-com bubble; we leave it far less secure, less certain and less optimistic than seniors of yesteryear...
...fellow organizers in a group called TOCSIN were galvanized by apocalyptic concern for the fate of humanity during the height of the Cold...
...neighborhood concerns about the height of the building, the stilts were shortened to one level, Narayanamurti said...