Word: shrapnel
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Just before 3 a.m. on Saturday a hand grenade went off outside the bedroom window of my Belgrade apartment, filling the room with smoke and shards of glass, leaving shrapnel holes on the ceiling and walls. Despite the damage, we were lucky: when the police arrived, they found a second grenade, unexploded, on the sidewalk nearby. I had been in danger many times before while covering the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia for TIME and for the local newsmagazine Vreme. But this was different: the wars ended years ago, Serbia's former President Slobodan Milosevic is dead and buried...
...Makai Hall, now 24, was in the Columbine High School library when Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, went on their shooting rampage April 20, 1999. He suffered a bullet wound in his right knee and shrapnel in his torso and cheek. His scars remain visible...
...internally displaced people, as refugees within their own country are known, fighting would erupt again and they would be forced to move on. Last November, the family was cowering inside a tent at a camp in the town of Kathiraveli during a bombardment when a shell landed close by. Shrapnel ripped through the flimsy canvas and into flesh, killing Jeevatharsini's 7-year-old sister, punching a fist-sized hole in her 4-year-old brother's lower back, and slicing into her arm. Sinnathambi has now moved his family further south to the district of Batticaloa, where I found...
...Another wise man once said “man shall not live on bread alone” (Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4) And for that reason, the Jewish people invented matza. Ahh, matza: the delectably brittle flat bread that dries our mouths and sprays bread shrapnel in all conceivable directions for one week each year as we remember our ancestors’ escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt during the Jewish holiday of Passover. Some say it was designed brilliantly for its delectable taste and superior nutrition, while others argue that it was adopted by coincidence...
...started coming over the airwaves. A suicide bomber blew himself up as a deputy prime minister was walking out of a well-guarded mosque near his home on the edge of the fortified Green Zone in the middle of Baghdad. Salam al-Zubaie was struck in the chest by shrapnel and remains in hospital in a serious condition after undergoing surgery, according to the Iraqi authorities. The blast killed nine people, and wounded 14 more, including five of the minister's bodyguards...