Word: sliver
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...damaged as it was removed from the sarcophagus. Studying the corpse literally limb by limb, the first anatomist found nothing suspicious. More than 40 years later, however, in 1968, a University of Liverpool researcher received permission to X-ray the mummy and discovered some intriguing clues: there was a sliver of bone floating in the brain cavity and a dense area at the base of the skull that may have been a blood clot, suggesting a severe--perhaps deliberately lethal--blow to the back of the head...
Another foot-powered option is to walk along the Boulevard Ring, the sliver of park that encircles much of the center of Moscow. At night the city is awash with restaurants, many of them much more expensive than in London or Paris, though often of lesser quality. But there are also bargains, such as the concerts in the Conservatory, in small palaces, and even occasionally in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum or the Tretyakov Gallery. All cost pennies. If you speak Russian, the superb plays directed by Kama Ginkas at the Young Spectators' Theater are another perfect...
...fortunes of the Northern Alliance, whic h is present at the talks, have been entirely reversed by U.S. air support. Two months ago, they were clinging desperately to a 10 percent sliver of northern Afghanistan, having been chased out of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996. Now, they're back in control of Kabul and more than half of the country - and they're talking like incumbents. Alliance leader President Buranhuddin Rabbani reminded the world on the eve of the talks that he remains Afghanistan's legal head of state, not only in the minds of his own supporters...
...first faint sliver of the new moon over Afghanistan Saturday will signal the onset of Ramadan, but this year the holy month may be a time both of fasting and fierce fighting. The Taliban negotiated away their last stronghold Friday, Mullah Omar reportedly handing the city over to two Pashtun warlords and heading for the hills. Thousands of Taliban fighters, many of them foreign volunteers, remained under siege at Kunduz in the north, with the Northern Alliance threatening to launch a bloody assault by nightfall Friday if they fail to surrender. The era of Taliban power is plainly over...
...Taliban, the Northern Alliance finally stepped up to their role as the all-important infantry component of the campaign. Before September 11, they'd been the beleaguered remnants of the first post-Soviet government, outnumbered and outgunned by the Taliban and fighting simply to survive in a tiny sliver of land along Afghanistan's northeastern border. Two months later, thanks largely to U.S. air and logistical support, it controls half the country and appears to have effectively ended Taliban rule...