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...relative safety of Tyre. The next day, a UNIFIL relief column which was attempting to rescue beleaguered residents of Marwahine and nearby villages came under Israeli shellfire, with 12 155mm rounds exploding nearby. A peacekeeper who was on the convoy tells TIME that body-armored U.N. soldiers threw themselves on top of the villagers to protect them from flying shrapnel. On Monday, 20 residents of Aitaroun near the border were reported killed in two seperate strikes on their homes...
...handed the rifle to Dowdy, who tried to fix it, but he failed and just threw it back to her in frustration. She held it like a soldier would, but she might as well have been back in West Virginia, playing war with pop-guns. They had just crawled back to the humvee when Jessi heard a single, sharp gunshot, then silence, then the gunfire began to chatter, coming closer...
...enormously complex task. Although Einstein was the better physicist, Hilbert was the better mathematician. So in October 1915 Einstein threw himself into a monthlong frenzy in which he returned to an earlier mathematical strategy and wrestled with tensors, equations, proofs, corrections and updates that he rushed to give as lectures to Berlin's Prussian Academy of Sciences on four successive Thursdays--even as he was struggling to arrange a reconciliation with his sons...
...London Times, filed a story the next day; soon news of the massacre had reached Paris. There, the Spanish painter Picasso was preparing a monumental commission for his native country's pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition of Arts and Sciences. The outraged artist, never particularly passionate about politics, threw aside his planned work The Studio: the Painter and his Model, and began to create his masterpiece, a monochrome scream of pain and horror...
...Nevertheless, Williams looked at the American church's unwillingness to fully repent its election of a gay bishop in 2003, and effectively threw up his hands, declaring "whatever the presenting issue, no member Church can make significant decisions unilaterally and still expect this to make no difference to how it is regarded in the fellowship." In his lengthy "reflection," he proposed a two-tier system for the global communion. One tier would consist of "constituent churches" - full members which agree to sign a future covenant - and the other tier would include "churches in association" which would have weaker observer status...