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...recounted how one night, just after midnight, a missile dropped from the sky onto the home where he and his mother, stepfather, brother and six sisters were sleeping. "The house collapsed," he says. "My mother was dead, my stepfather was dead, my brother, dead. My mother was pregnant." Ali believes some of his sisters may have escaped...
...After this first elimination round I was still left with quite a bit of reading. So I gathered an armful of books and, bearlike, climbed out of the chamber and squinted at the cloudless sky. Seating myself by the pool I began to read comix while, in a sad echo of my entire life, twenty or so frolicsome teenagers splashed about and engaged in healthy socializing and sexualized horseplay. Retiring to my less distracting room, I discovered several good books that had passed under my radar...
...There was this sense that [Sept. 11] came out of nowhere,” he said. “There was a sense that we were just innocently living our lives and the airplanes fell onto our heads out of the sky...
...fear that hangs over Basra is as thick and evil-smelling as the canopy of black smoke reaching across the sky from the burning oil trenches around the city. "In Basra everything is horrible for us," says Osamah Ijam, 23, a medical student who left town on Friday morning. "We see our future burning...
...mountain bike and then unwind with some imported wine, barbecued local mutton and a dip in a hot tub powered by a wood fire. Nomadic Expeditions has built a lodge in the Gobi Desert. And while there's really no way to catch the feel of Mongolia's big sky other than by driving for days beneath it, Nomadic Expeditions offers a flat-tire-proof alternative for reaching remote rafting and fishing sites: Russian-built helicopters. In the mountain rivers and streams, anglers stalk the ferocious taimen, a Siberian relative of the salmon that can grow to about...