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...have fired a much larger fusillade were it looking to join the fight, and it would be unlikely to risk its considerable political gains in Lebanon since the 2006 war by provoking a new Israeli attack. The more likely culprit in this instance is one of the many Palestinian splinter factions based in Lebanon, which is home to some 400,000 Palestinian refugees. Besides sympathizing with their brethren in Gaza, Palestinians in Lebanon have often been used as cannon fodder by regional intelligence agencies, and the impoverished refugee camps where about half of them live are incubators of discontent...
...great bed had broken beneath the weight of its energetic occupants. Felicity now snatched up a thick splinter of wood and thrust it into the fireplace. Holding her torch aloft, she sprang upon Zalathal’s back. For a moment she hesitated, looking around her at Roxanna’s chamber. It had to burn. Almost delicately, she touched the flaming tip of the torch to the vanity table. The wood curled slowly away and then burst into flames. Felicity dug her heels into the stallion’s flanks...
...procedures involving Shiels' technique, which Shiels first introduced to the hospital in 1995, Young realized that some of the patients hadn't injured themselves accidentally. Unlike the majority of people who came in for treatment - for stepping on a piece of glass or being impaled by a particularly large splinter - these patients' wounds were self-inflicted. "I started to see three or four instances where the foreign-body cases were not accidental," he says. "I started to think it was a little strange and mentioned it to Dr. Shiels...
Given the centrality and breadth that characterize HDRB, we do not doubt that it should qualify for concentration status. As human knowledge continues to expand and splinter, however, it will become increasingly important for the Faculty to hold fast to its liberal arts principles. Undergraduates at Harvard should specialize in a distinct and central field of study in the tradition of the liberal arts; they are not graduate students, postdocs, or researchers, and their experience should not be treated as such. Even as the face of science transforms, the core pedagogical values that have guided the College for well over...
...MOVIE Splinter Seen enough of the Saw movies? For harrowing Horrorween chills, try Toby Wilkins' lean, nasty tale of four people (including thug Shea Whigham and dweeb Paulo Costanzo) battling a porcupinish parasite. It's like Night of the Living Dead but with prickles...