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...days ago choked with taxis and crowded with stalls are empty. Shutters have closed on entire strips of shops like steel eyelids. The only kebab shop still operating in this community of 45,000 ran out of meat by 11 a.m. Six or seven grocers stood by their wooden carts half-heartedly selling leftover potatoes, tomatoes and some onions. Before the war there were hundreds of such men plying fresh produce...
...Camp Grizzly in the northern desert, Marines spend the sunset hour of most days throwing horseshoes they've made by bending tent spikes. Some do chin-ups on a 2-by-4 hung from a wooden frame next to their tent. Or they just relax by lounging on a wooden bench they built. Behind the bench, a sign on a pole reads BUS STOP. "What bus are you waiting for?" someone asks. "We're thinking of a loop," says Lance Corporal Josh Hotvet, 21, a Marine Reservist from Albany, N.Y. "Baghdad and then home...
Likewise, the atmosphere of the reading is cheerful and low-key. Students sit in comfortable easy chairs around the wooden table, munching on mints and cookies, waiting for their turn to speak...
...world. But during the Bamiyan replica's construction, Oriental Buddha's workers allegedly destroyed dozens of the famed Mahaoya tombs, architectural marvels that date back two millennia and are also under UNESCO protection. Local residents and archaeologists are furious about Oriental Buddha's purportedly cavalier treatment of the tombs, wooden structures that had hung from the Leshan cliffs at seemingly impossible angles. "Why did they have to destroy something with so much history to build something silly and new?" asks Li Peide, an official at the tiny, underfunded Mahaoya Tombs Museum at the foot of the mountain where the Bamiyan...
...intense match reached its crescendo with the score tied 29-29. An errant Harvard dig sent Ramos out-of-bounds after the ball. In an attempt to save the point, Ramos crashed head first into a wooden set of bleachers. He remained on the ground wincing for several minutes...