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...parts of their beloved homeland. Cyprus has been keeping international negotiators busy since an Athens-backed coup triggered the invasion of the northern part of the island by Turkish troops in 1974. Today, U.N. peacekeepers still keep the two sides apart along a fortified "green line" that runs the width of the island, trimmed with sandbags and razor wire. The Annan plan is the most ambitious effort to find a solution so far: a 9,000-plus-page tome that would establish a Swiss-style "United Cyprus Republic" in which two constituent states are unified by a federal government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Say Yes, We Say No | 4/18/2004 | See Source »

...Tomb Raiders roll out for a night patrol six hours later, Whiteside is tenser than before, gripping his gun tightly as the platoon careers through dark, empty alleys running with sewage. "I hate it when the lights go out," he says, staring down a street that is barely the width of a humvee. "You don't know what's going to happen. If they sat down and planned it, they could block this road and just light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait Of A Platoon | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...Schector. It’s an easy mistake to make; after all, it’s apparent from the start that at that early point in Jen’s career, MIT engineers were not being commissioned to calculate the precise hair curvature that would optimize her perceived facial width...

Author: By Dan Gilmore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: View from the Pop | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

Duct tape the pattern to the cleaned and hollowed pumpkin—it’s best to scrape the pumpkin walls down to a width of about three-quarters of an inch...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Jack-o-Larry | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...surrounds, Dartboard decided to empirically investigate a matter that had been gnawing at his mind for some time. Measuring the distance from the Leverett towers to the Science Center with Dartboard’s thumbs, Dartboard was surprised to learn that while that distance was spanned by the width of seven thumbs, not even a single thumb separated Leverett’s towers from Mather’s ugly slab...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

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