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...kibbutz outside Jerusalem, Harazi went into a half-built house to provide covering fire for the injured. Yoel crossed the room and tripped the wire of a booby trap; the explosion knocked him unconscious and set him on fire. Harazi, who had been protected from the blast by a pillar, was unhurt and ran to Yoel just as another bomb was thrown through a window. Shrapnel wounded Harazi in the legs and face, but he got out and ran 50 yds. back to the medic unit. "Eyal is lying in there burning!" he shouted to the medics. "There...
...high-resolution camera, installed in March, arrived last week, and they are out of this world. This photo of a stellar nursery is a close-up of the Cone Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust some 2,500 light-years from Earth. From top to bottom, the celestial pillar shown here spans 2.5 light-years--3,000 times the size of our solar system. Stars are being born within the cloud as dense knots of gas collapse and flare with nuclear fusion. Five billion years ago, when our sun was still a newborn, it was probably shrouded...
...victims of unjust crimes. If ignored or abused, they can cause serious mishap, but if correctly propitiated they can be persuaded to grant great favors. The place to appease them is an extinct volcano called Mount Popa, at the foot of which a stone sentinel stands guard. A massive pillar of rock riddled with meditation cells and capped with pale green and gold temples, the 737-m-high Popa Daung Kalat, or Popa Crest, shelters 37 of Burma's most powerful nats...
...studio near Ground Zero, and he also gives me copies of two editorials that he recently wrote about the September 11 attacks. The op-eds have the same exquisitely lucid style that characterizes most of his writing; Gould dissects a human catastrophe as well as he does a pillar of evolutionary theory...
...peace agreement and leave the region in a state of low-intensity war for the foreseeable future. Not only has the Israeli operation deepened the radicalization of the Palestinian population; it may also have mortally wounded the Palestinian Authority's security structures. And those security structures are an indispensable pillar of any cease-fire or peace plan, because they will be responsible for preventing attacks on Israelis. If the current offensive leaves their ability to maintain order impaired, Israel will find itself compelled to continue to police the recently reoccupied towns - a scenario that would reverse the entire Oslo peace...