Word: mortars
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...living standards for all, more of the region's 500 million people are stuck in poverty, and its economies look more like Global Crossing than the global players they aspired to be. The sense that Washington was losing influence in Latin America deepened last week when Marxist guerrillas fired mortar shells in Bogota, killing 20, during President Alvaro Uribe's inauguration...
...Shepard. ("I read Buried Child in the second grade," says White.) And his discovery about his father led to a lifelong fascination with secrets. "You feel like even really good people are showing a different public face than their private selves," he says. Sexual secrets are the brick and mortar of The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck, and in 2001 White created Fox's Pasadena, a twisted, sly and regrettably short-lived prime-time soap (set in his hometown) about the criminal, financial and bedroom secrets of a newspaper-mogul family...
...even though "High Street" banks have more online customers overall, four pure-play Net banks - Egg, Smile, Intelligent Finance and Cahoot - have made impressive inroads. Egg has 2.1 million customers, for instance, compared to about 3 million for Barclays' online service, the biggest among Britain's bricks-and-mortar banks. And together, the pure plays have nearly 30% of the U.K.'s total number of unique visitors, according to NetValue. Elsewhere in Europe, Spain's Uno-e's customer base rose 13% in the first quarter to 130,000. And earlier this year, Egg bought France's online Zebank, which...
...original stones. The remaining 1,088 have been cut from the same quarry that Ottoman builders used in the 16th century. These massive limestone blocks, engineers say, are unique to the region in their combination of porousness and durability. One thing that won't be reproduced is the mortar used to hold the stones together, which was said to be mixed from goat hair and egg shells. Mending the ethnic wounds is going to prove harder. The Stari Most was destroyed by a Croat shell not because of its strategic significance but because of what it stood for - the ethnic...
...engaged in a series of operations throughout the Deh Rawod region. A B-52 bomber pounded a cave and tunnel complex; special forces on the ground discovered a weapons cache with thousands of rounds of armor-piercing ammunition. Allied sources in Afghanistan say that ground forces saw a mortar being covered with a tarpaulin in Kakarak and that later they were fired upon as they approached the village. At that point the soldiers called in support from the AC-130. (That night the gunship attacked no fewer than six sites.) American sources claim--and Afghan sources deny--that the plane...