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...another close shave when he stopped in a busy neighborhood to buy black-market gas. A car bomb went off 50 yards away, destroying his car. Luckily, he had stepped out of the vehicle to negotiate with the seller; he got away with minor shrapnel wounds. One tiny shard ripped into his shirt pocket in a direct line to his heart. The shrapnel arrowed through a thick wad of Iraqi currency and some loose paper and was finally stopped by his plastic ID card. "At last, I can say money saved my life," he jokes...
...bridge's east side map the dark, grimy, industrial face; cross to the west side for the regal and religious. TALKS Head to Southwark Cathedral for the "sermon" by Renzo Piano, co-architect of Paris' Pompidou Center, on the grand design for his London Bridge Tower. Dubbed the "Shard of Glass," it should stand as Europe's tallest building when completed in 2010. Then drop in at the Barbican to hear Rem Koolhaas, a fierce critic of skyscrapers, at the Big Debate on London's soaring skyline. PASSEGGIATA Armed with a bit more knowledge, it'll be time...
...early history of photography while foreshadowing the advent of the moving image. Strange by name and nature, Sixty Lights risked alienating readers but ultimately dazzled with its precise image-making, from a gentleman's top hat set aflame in gaslight London, a dhoti-flapping Indian impaled by a shard of mirror glass, to the birth of Lucy's daughter: "She was irrefutable, glistening, a kind of absolute light." The novel was long-listed for London's Man Booker Prize...
...give his new group the name Fort Minor to “reflect the dynamic between opposites,” and to write all the songs on his new album. Rest assured, Shinoda hastens to assure his implausibly numerous fans that he is still “an essential shard in the mosaic of Linkin Park,” whose work is “searing.” You can sleep easy knowing that Shinoda will continue to bring his “appetite for striking new ground” to his work with Fort Minor. Never having been...
...were slammed against the windshield, shattering it, and were showered by a hail of shrapnel. Salah's left arm and hand were torn to shreds below the elbow, and blood spurted from two gaping wounds in his left thigh. Both men were lacerated by shrapnel and burned. A shard of glass cut a deep gash in Abu Karam's neck. The blast also damaged a second car, with shrapnel hitting its driver, university student Leith Waleed, in the back of his head...