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...heavy shelling of the southern suburbs last month, thousands of Shi'ite Muslim refugees fled to Ras Beirut, a largely Sunni Muslim neighborhood of stylish boutiques and comfortable apartments. Shaia Hoaijan and her five children moved into an abandoned flat. The owner had knocked holes in the roof and poured concrete down the toilet to fend off squatters, but within a week the place was habitable. "The owner's wife burst in and cursed us, demanding that we leave," she says. "But I told her we were not leaving because we had nowhere...
...another scene, Gortchakov and Eugenia visit a man who had been mad ever since losing his wife. The madman, who lives in a dilapidated house full of pails and bottles to collect the rain falling through the roof--there is not a single sunny scene in the film--urges Gortchakov to perform a ritual, carrying a lit candle across one of the fountains outside his house--a wish that is later carried out. We know neither the reason for Gortchakov's visit nor the significance of the ritual...
...right to close the critical Straits of Hormuz, through which 60 percent of the West's oil flows. The fanatic ideologues behind the revolutionary Iranian regime would not be averse to a hobbling of the industrial world, especially if such action sent the price of crude through the roof and actually increased Iran's total revenue from the reduced amount of oil that would no doubt slip through...
Henvy precipitation combined with what officials describe as poor roof design caused widespread flooding and leaking in Cansday Hall this week...
...opposite to the service tower, it will neatly "mate," as the engineers like to put it, with the other building to form an enclosed, weather-protected space where the rest of the shuttle vehicle can be assembled. Like the tower, the assembly building will have a crane in its roof. Together the two machines can hoist the empty, 154.4-ft.-long, 69,000-lb. external tank of a future shuttle into place between the stacks of rocket boosters. Clearance on each side: less than ¼ in. The final element in the assembly, the main body of the shuttle, or orbiter...