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...blue trim on a residential street in the Green Zone. The BCC, as it's known, gets its alcohol from suppliers outside the walls, but insurgents are targeting the crossings on either side of the Tigris River. On this Saturday, a truck bomb on a bridge has locked up traffic on the west bank of the Tigris, delaying the delivery of the night's beer supply. Heidi, a recent college graduate from Florida, wonders whether the war will eventually collapse on the Green Zone, the way it did on the U.S. embassy in Saigon. But she doesn't let that...
...were never consulted about this", says Dorothee Dabrou, President of the Montmartre Artists's Collective and a local resident of 30 years. "Montmartre used to have the best air in Paris but now, since no one can park their car, the streets are clogged with traffic and pollution has increased. Who would have thought that the Greens could destroy the environment...
...were never consulted about this", says Dorothee Dabrou, President of the Montmartre Artists's Collective and a local resident of 30 years. "Montmartre used to have the best air in Paris but now, since no one can park their car, the streets are clogged with traffic and pollution has increased. Who would have thought that the Greens could destroy the environment...
...That's the kind of beauty Manila offers: not obvious, but undeniable once you've encountered it. My grandmother has lived here for almost nine decades, through World War II and the Marcos years. One afternoon, while stuck in traffic on Roxas Boulevard, she suddenly exclaims 'Maganda!' (Beautiful!). I look to where she is pointing: a few scraggly, nondescript bushes sit on the divide between a choking 12-lane thoroughfare. But then I look closer: at the tips of the sparsely covered branches are clusters of tiny, vivid scarlet buds. Amid this congested, often dilapidated city, they're right there...
...constructed inside Baghdad, but many more are made outside the city in Sunni areas where the Americans have only a small presence. It's simply not possible to protect all large Shi'ite population centers from all directions without draconian measures like daytime curfews and bans on all vehicle traffic...