Word: mazes
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...many as you would find at your local Barnes & Noble store. Even with the best cataloging system and the most helpful staff, tracking down every instance of a subject by browsing the stacks could take years. Like Steve Jobs with his iTunes Music Store, Bezos had to negotiate a maze of copyright issues and publishing-house egos to get his digital archive off the ground. Some writers in the cooking and travel genres fear a whole new kind of literary Napster situation. They say readers will too easily crib a recipe or city description without buying the book. They...
...Paula Modersohn-Becker’s etching Blind Woman in the Woods (Woman Playing the Piano), an elderly woman is trapped in a maze inhabited only by mushrooms and bare-branched trees. Feeling her way through the somber dark, she inadvertently makes a piano out of nature, her fingers pressing silent keys into the forest’s air. Yet her attempts seem futile, likening the work to other etchings which portray common folk with sad overtones...
...arrests were a heartening victory in Asia's war on terror. But they were followed by bitter disappointment. Shortly after Tohir and Ismail were nabbed, says National Police chief detective Erwin Mappaseng, two bigger fish got away through a maze of small alleys in Bandung. Police say Dr. Azahari bin Husin, JI's alleged master bombmaker, and Nurdin Mohamad Top, a fellow Malaysian and suspected bomb expert, had been hiding out in a boarding house in Bandung for six weeks. Apparently, the two Malaysians got wind of the earlier arrests-and disappeared. When police searched the Bandung boarding house, they...
Rated the best orchard in New England for apple picking by Channel 7 news this year. While the apples may be the main attraction, the orchard also offers hayrides and a challenging hedge maze to explore. The orchard’s store sells pumpkins and 25 different varieties of apples in addition to fresh apple cider...
...Last week, police raided Chimatpada, a maze of slum houses, cheap restaurants and noisy industrial workshops, bursting into the pink-walled shanty where the Hanifs lived. Inside, says chief investigator Rakesh Maria, they found 22 detonators, 235 gelatin sticks, 14 timing devices, wires and soldering equipment. As the authorities tell it, the Hanifs collaborated with a 26-year-old embroiderer, Arshat Ansari, to pull off the Aug. 25 bombings that killed 52 and injured 175 in Bombay. While Ansari allegedly placed his bomb in a taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, a crowded jewelry market, police say the Hanifs had packed explosives...