Word: window
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...Painted in oil by an anonymous 18th century artist, these scenes were the church's most glorious features, its aesthetic soul. And on the black market, they could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The thieves removed the framed canvases from the walls and lowered them through a window to the side street below. When they were done, they left the church through a tunnel that only a few people knew about. Once outside, they vanished, along with the paintings...
...painting is one of Greece's most sacred icons. So when, one morning in August 2006, the monastery's Mother Superior followed a breeze to the back of the church and discovered that the painting was missing - its pine-and-resin cradle empty, climbing ropes dangling outside a broken window - she fell to her knees and prayed...
PHILIP S. BARIE, chief of the division of critical care at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, on the recuperation of Alcides Moreno, a 37-year-old window washer who fell 47 stories last month...
CONTEXT Turns out that video snacking happens a lot during the office lunch hour. Web content providers have long known that usage spikes at midday during the workweek and are creating content specifically for that window. Sites like ComedyCentral.com are competing with YouTube by splitting shows into short segments; others, like PoliticalLunch.com are creating short midday webcasts...
...same was true in Bethlehem, where even children were kept off the roads and many, including the wife of TIME correspondent Jamil Hamad, were forbidden by soldiers to glance out the window of their own homes. At Manger Square, in front of Jesus' birthplace, American security experts were spotted prying up manholes to check sewage pipes for bombs. These draconian security precautions prompted one Palestinian official, who opposes his own President's close ties with Bush, to comment: "What's all this fear? Is it because the Americans and Palestinians running this show know they're doing something wrong...