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After my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw a chamber of about 8 sq. ft., high enough for a tall man to stand. The floor was dirt and rubble, but there were signs of habitation. I saw two empty white boxes decorated with palm trees and the words "Sherjah Dates." Scattered on the floor were a few green metal boxes of ammunition with Russian writing on them. Another cave next to it was about the same size and filled with ammunition--mostly rocket-propelled grenades and bullets for Kalashnikovs...
...breadth of offerings and ease of use. The decidedly inferior pricescan.com searched disappointingly few merchants in all but the electronics category and seemed to have trouble simply producing coherent search results. My overall favorite, bizrate.com promptly found everything I wanted--from a bottle of Veuve Clicquot to the latest Palm computer. Because Bizrate's rankings for each site are culled from thousands of consumer surveys, rather than the handful per merchant found on many of the other bots (or none at all, at PriceScan and SmartShop), Bizrate also made me feel the safest about shopping online. The on-time delivery...
...inwardness and remoteness of this girl are emphasized by the spiky leaves of the dark tree behind her--a juniper, ginevra in the Italian of the day, her given name. Then, on the back of the panel, is the explanatory inscription. A branch of laurel and a palm frond--for glory and virtue--enclose a twig of juniper, with the inscription "Virtutem forma decorat" (Beauty adorns virtue...
...After my eyes adjusted I saw a chamber of about eight square feet and high enough for a tall man to stand in. The floor was dirt and rubble, but there were signs of habitation. It contained two empty white boxes decorated with palm trees and the words, "Sherjah Dates." Scattered on the floor were a few green metal boxes of ammunition with Russian writing on them, and a canister about the size of an unexploded cluster bomb but the wrong color - red instead of yellow. Another cave next to it was about the same size and filled with ammunition...
Baer, a native of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., is a social studies concentrator with a focus on international development. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa...