Word: outerness
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Terror struck in the streets of Tashkent last week, but you'd never know it from the local media. The attacks were swift and bloody, and scattered across the city, from the Chorsu market near the center to the outer suburbs. Their impact was heightened by the government's near-total news blackout. The biggest firefight took place in the Yalangach district, about 3 km from Uzbek President Islam Karimov's residence. Government officials claim 20 terrorists were cornered and quickly blew themselves up, but locals say the guerrillas were fewer in number, and resisted the police for over...
...June to September, to nibble on a cricket. The size of a grown man's finger and priced at about 3? each, they're served deep-fried with a pinch of salt and pepper. The most popular are the females laden with eggs?like spiders, they have a crispy outer shell and a thick, milky center...
...capital. On a narrow, unpaved Baghdad alleyway lined with raw sewage, eight of Dhahir's colleagues set out to find two men who allegedly killed a shopkeeper. There's little doubt when they reach the right house. Scrawled in red paint across the length of a mud-brick outer wall is a warning: THIS HOUSE IS WANTED FOR BLOOD. Abdul Aziz Salman, a local grocer, says he painted the message after he watched the two men who live there gun down his brother at his cigarette stall just across the narrow lane. Salman looks on as the officers approach...
...Outer and Inner Space / Poor Little Rich Girl...
...exit. For all the physical effect it is capable of, ?Mission: SPACE? is, I would aver, subtle. I guess the seat moves and somehow impersonates weightlessness and several gazillion G?s of force, and I guess the film in front of you captures the drama of outer space, but, truth be told, I don?t know how they do it. It?s not a jarring ride at all, but it takes your breath away, it makes your heart race. According to Christopher, who is seven, it ?rocks...