Word: shrapnel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small arms and grenades. There was shooting from all directions, and we couldn't see who was shooting at us. I saw a muzzle once, sticking around a corner, and I shot at it." Almost instantly, though, Rodriguez himself "got shot in the right hip. Then I got some shrapnel in my left foot and a little bit in my face. It broke some bones, and I was down. Our squad leader got hit too. It got pretty confusing...
Serious connoisseurs of violence, however, should call Massimo Beyerle in La Spezia, Italy, who is accepting bookings for his October War Zone tour of Lebanon. For $25,000, travelers can spend two weeks hunting for shrapnel in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley, visiting the scene of the U.S. Marine barracks blown up in 1983 and dining in a Palestinian refugee camp. Beyerle says he also plans trips to Nicaragua, Somalia and parts of the former Soviet Union...
Asif Imamajovic stands in the shrapnel-scarred doorway of the Bjelave orphanage, watching the chaos around him. More than 60 children, abandoned by their parents, fight, scream and run through the empty corridors of the three- story school. Though he is not on the faculty -- most of the instructors have fled -- Imamajovic says he is their mentor. "I teach them to steal and not to share," he says. "I teach them to survive. The city may die, but some of them will live...
Hackney once wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer that in the campus contests between left and right, he stood in the huge middle ground, residing "somewhere in no-man's-land (excuse me, . . . no-person's-land), ducking the shrapnel from the p.c. bombs exploding in the popular press." When the Senate finally holds confirmation hearings, Hackney may want to consider wearing a flak jacket...
...crash were nearly installed in U.S. airliners. Because many components of military jets are interchangeable with those of commercial jetliners, unscrupulous dealers have somehow passed off parts from jets shot up in the Gulf War as acceptable commercial spares. Truckloads of such components have been seized, some with shrapnel and gaping bullet holes. Investigators found critical engine parts so badly damaged that they would have fallen apart within two hours if used...