Word: roofs
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...know what Mel Gibson's next project is going to be, but I think we can rule out Fiddler on the Roof." JAY LENO...
...Mphandula, the dusty, thatched-roof town where the orphan-care center is to be built, villagers look blank when shown a picture of one of the most famous women in the world. Since this is a place where people can afford to eat meat or wear shoes only on very special occasions, a place with no electricity or piped water, her anonymity is not surprising. But when the name Madonna is mentioned, they have heard of her: she's the woman who's building the center for their children. And they have no use for cynicism. "The orphanage project...
...hospital in Tyre. It took Shaalan about 15 minutes to reach Qana, having steered his ambulance around the numerous bomb craters in the road. As usual, the ambulance's lights were on full-beam, the internal light also was on, the revolving blue light was flashing on the roof and the Red Cross flag was lit up. Shaalan wanted everyone to know he was there...
...Shaalan closed the back of the ambulance, however, a missile punched through the roof of the vehicle and exploded inside. "There was a boom, a big fire and I was thrown backwards. I thought I was dead," Shaalan recalls. He opened his eyes and checked himself to see if he was hurt. One of his colleagues, Nader Joudi, was standing, but the third member of the team, Mohammed Hassan, was unconscious. One of the Tibnine medics put through an emergency call to the Red Cross operations room in Tyre that they were under attack. Then a second missile struck...
...other neighborhoods suffered. Just 30 minutes after my arrival, in a section of the city called Madrassa al-Daniyah, two Israeli bombs punched their way through the roof of a three-story home and turned the kitchen on the ground floor into a six-foot-deep crater. The bedrooms and the living room were shattered. We had heard the whistling zing of the falling bombs, but none of the journalists was sure what they were. Bombs? Outgoing Katyushas? Bombs, as it turns...