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...Nine people were killed, including six children, and 23 were wounded. Solomuna's residents now rise before dawn and climb into narrow ravines, where they spend the day huddled under rock overhangs. The sound of a distant MiG one morning instantly silenced several hundred chattering children, as all peered skyward. Ghiday Haile, 33, sat under a rock ledge holding her four-year-old son. "Women who were friends of mine died in the attack," she recalled. "I will never again spend the sunlight hours in that camp...
State of Emergency? Nonsense. Just ask the students playing frisbee in staggering winds at the Quad, or the daredevils in front of Kirkland lofting footballs skyward as tree limbs crashed to ground nearby. In Adams House, residents feted Gloria with wine, cheese and Beethoven in the lower common room. And down by the Charles, Gloria's admirers were practicing the backstroke. No one dares dive into the tubercular river muck even on sunny days. But during a hurricane...
...rays, even for the swarthiest guest. The preferred way for getting a quick tan is to stand facing the sun with arms held aloft. Because of a shortage of swimsuits and suntan oil, beaches are crowded with thousands of pale bodies, some clad only in underwear, reaching skyward like a lost tribe of sun worshipers...
Smoke spewed skyward from a cluster of Christian villages around the port of Sidon last week as Druze and Muslim forces, victors in a fresh outburst of fighting in Lebanon's ten-year-old civil war, put the torch to the plundered shops, homes and schools of Christians. Throughout the week, as militiamen from at least three different factions took over the region, residents of Beirut and Sidon drove into the villages to join in the looting. They loaded their cars and pickup trucks with furniture and clothing, raided vegetable gardens and stripped an entire banana plantation before returning home...
...said Pilot Walker with apparent delight. On the appointed day, turbulent winds of up to 80 m.p.h. at high altitude postponed the liftoff from Cape Canaveral. But nearly everything that NASA could control, it did. When the weather calmed down the next morning, the black-and-white bird threaded skyward only 70 milliseconds late. The one-day delay meant that the launch came on Gardner's birthday, and he promised "not to blow out the candle until 8½ minutes into the flight," when the main engines shut down...