Word: mortared
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...embassy officials in Kabul declined to comment despite TIME's inquiries. But for an area of Afghanistan where hold-out Taliban commanders still roam free - among them, it is believed, the fundamentalist movement's leader, Mullah Omar - U.S. contributions in bricks and mortar may be the best bet of bringing the locals in from the cold...
...over the Wa's drug trafficking, the Thai army deployed troops and heavy artillery near the border. Burmese soldiers, meanwhile, massed in support of the Wa and for an offensive against other ethnic rebels?fighting that threatened to spill into Thailand. As Bangkok and Rangoon traded accusations, soldiers traded mortar fire. Villagers were evacuated as stray rounds rained down on Thai soil. No civilians were harmed?until last week. Farther south in Ratchaburi province, three gunmen in military fatigues fired automatic weapons at a pickup truck full of schoolchildren. Three students were killed and 12 wounded. "It was like something...
...Sears, like Lands' End, has quietly mastered the art of pleasing what marketers call "multichannel" customers--those who use a combination of stores, catalogs and websites. Sears has used its website effectively not only to sell goods for mail delivery but also to drive traffic into its bricks-and-mortar stores, say, when a shopper at sears.com checks out the features and price of a freezer and then heads to the store to look the thing over and close the deal. More than 30% of Sears' online purchases are picked up at the store, and once there, about one-fifth...
...screen image of themselves and "try on" items. Online orders accounted for more than $300 million of its $1.6 billion in sales last year, and are growing three times as fast as catalog purchases. With only 16 discount outlets and one test store, Lands' End has minuscule bricks-and-mortar sales...
Antigovernment rebels took responsibility for the deadliest single incident in the 38-year civil war - the killing of 117 villagers, including 45 children, sheltering in a church at Bojaya. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said a mortar bomb accidentally hit the church during fighting with right-wing paramilitary soldiers. Government troops later regained control of the area...