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...surveyed the surreal traffic jam of bombed vehicles on the highway to Basra. "It was nightmarish," he says, "partly because it was so perfectly familiar." Plus he nearly managed to blow himself up by peering into a booby-trapped box of rocket-propelled grenades on a hotel roof...
...flames swept through the top floors, forcing the evacuation of 200 people. One American and one Soviet fireman were treated for smoke inhalation. The conflagration, the third to break out since 1977, is believed to have started accidentally in an elevator shaft before spreading to the upper floors and roof...
...weeks have taken to camping out in front of homes to ensure themselves a chance to bid. The Toll Bros. development company held a grand opening the first weekend in February for a new housing project southwest of Philadelphia -- not that there was much to open. Only a single roof had been raised. Yet 400 people showed up the first day, and the initial 32 homes planned sold out within four days. When the company held an opening for a project near Washington the following week, buyers put down deposits on 14 of the first 20 homes...
Satellite photographs of the building showed at least two additions: a newly hardened roof and communications equipment that was protected against the electromagnetic effects of nuclear blasts. The satellites also snapped pictures of military vehicles parked outside and men in uniform entering and exiting the building. A wire-mesh fence surrounded the bunker; its roof had been painted with camouflage and fake bomb holes...
...story in the New York Times revealing that pro-Saddam sentiment is growing in Egypt. Times executive editor Max Frankel maintains that the major unexplored story of the war lies inside Iraq: "That's the heart of the war, not some Scud missile landing on a correspondent's hotel roof...