Word: slab
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...nice gadget." The town square is tiny, with no stores or restaurants, and is encircled by abandoned 15th century stone and wood cottages that look like drooping gingerbread houses. It is the vision of a dying mountain town, except for the odd 5-m-by-8-m rectangular slab of metal perched on the rocky cliff above, like a giant shining postage stamp. By 10 a.m., with a computer adjusting the mirror's position, the sun is indeed ricocheting down to the piazza, but it's more like a light in your eye than sunshine on your face...
...down, they lost track of it. Interest was rekindled four years ago when many Catholics streamed into Rome for Christianity's millennium and were disappointed to find no relic of the Saint. Two years later the archaelogists began digging, and this year they uncovered the sarcophagus and a protective slab inscribed in latin saying "To Paul, Apostle and Martyr." They were heartened by the presence of three holes in it (now stopped up with plaster) through which ancient pilgrims would have put cloths to come in contact with an object of veneration...
...Birhanu Worku, who cultivates half a hectare or so of potatoes and barley, was one of the first in Banja to build a pit latrine three years ago. It's a simple affair: a hole in the ground, 1 m across and 3 m deep, covered with a concrete slab and surrounded by mud walls, a thatched roof and a bamboo door. Outside the toilet is a plastic watering can, which Worku has jerry-rigged to dispense a trickle of water for flushing. His neighbors, he says, "came and asked me why I built it and how it worked...
Like many Australian mums and dads, my wife and I bought shares (O.K., installment receipts) when local telco monopoly Telstra was first offered to the public in 1997. A few years later, with our second child on board, we bought more shares when a further slab of the company was privatized in the so-called T2 offer. Australians were then still relatively new to direct share ownership, once the preserve of the wealthy. The stock market was buoyant, especially the technology and telecommunication sectors. If there was any qualm about the wider economy ("a miracle economy" after sailing through...
...smoke-filled scene before them. Then they too were stirred by fury. ?With our souls and our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, O Nasrallah,? they chanted in homage to Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah?s leader. ?Death to Israel and America,? yelled another man standing on a slab of concrete above the crowd...