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...under strong public pressure to maintain a tough response to Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza, Israeli leaders now face the challenge of answering a Palestinian attack that has been deeply troubling to the Israeli psyche. In the early hours of Sunday, seven or eight Palestinian gunmen emerged from a tunnel dug some 500 feet into Israeli territory at Kerem Shalom and, with supporting fire from inside Gaza, attacked a tank position, killing two Israelis (and losing two of their own men) before retreating with a wounded 19-year-old corporal, Gilad Shalit, as their captive. A number of radical groupings...
...corner of the Australian Outback, it finally happened. At the bottom of a tunnel near Barramundi Gap, warm water was seeping from the rocks. That was a clue to a find that now produces about 100,000 carats of dull-brown rough every day and has about 1 trillion carats left to give. The Argyle Diamond Mine is the richest in the world in terms of the sheer number of stones, but they are small and dingy, mostly the color of breakfast tea. They seemed destined to end up as knife blades, dental tools and drilling bits...
...claw-hammer murder of a young doctor. Twenty years later, Julian, now prison hardened, has been freed on a technicality and is bent on proving he didn't do it. Loughlin is equally convinced he got the right guy, but his eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre twist: fresh traces of the dead woman's blood have turned up under a new victim's nails. Blauner, winner of the 1992 Edgar for Best First Novel, has written a taut psychological thriller with a pair of conflicted but compelling antagonists and a surprise...
...stand, walk, even drive a car. I have this Honda Civic Type R, a special, souped-up model with a very powerful engine. I've always loved fast cars, this one more than most of them. I even wrote it into Hav. It's in the scene in the tunnel [once the romantic principal route to Hav, but now sadly trackless and unused]. Oops, Elizabeth has just handed me a note. Shall I read it to you? It says, 'I'm going out to buy some superglue.' O.K. Well, now what were we talking about?" Yes, that's the same...
Given the remorselessness of its wrecking crews, Beijing should not, by rights, be blessed with so enduring a structure as the Icehouse. But then the Icehouse is no ordinary structure. With 1.2-m-thick walls and access through a 20-m-long tunnel, it's more of a bunker - shouldering wars and revolutions, building booms and bulldozers...