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This used to be a municipal yard where the city parked dump trucks, steamrollers, backhoes and other vehicles. Norris and other officers had another spot in mind for the outpost, which overlooks the point where the main road linking Baghdad and northern Iraq meets a major artery running east and west. But insurgents had watched the troops as they scouted locations, and a sick comedy of explosions unfolded. Soldiers would eye a building and develop plans to occupy it, only to see it bombed shortly after they had visited it. At some point, someone graffitied a misspelled insult in English...
...morning of June 2, 2006, Ahmad Mudakir, a 33-year-old factory worker from Porong, a sleepy district in eastern Java, was in his front yard tinkering with his motorbike. A little after 8 a.m. he felt a rumbling in the ground - worrying, but not wholly unexpected in this seismically fitful corner of Indonesia. What happened next was anything but expected. Mudakir watched as a neighbor, who had been inside eating breakfast, came tumbling into the street. "There was an explosion," Mudakir recalls. "Then the mud started to flow." He gaped in amazement as a geyser of scalding sludge shot...
...rising cost of food is not just a problem within Harvard Yard...
Built to commemorate Harvard graduates who died in World War I, Memorial Church stands at the center of the Yard, its bells summoning students to class. Nondenominationally Protestant, the Church advertises itself as “a house of prayer for all people...
...though it has the largest college-age population of any city.” Harvard students, often in search of social interactions that don’t require any actual interaction, eagerly attended. Ted A. Timothy ’11, joined by several friends, braved the trek from the Yard and was well rewarded for his effort. “It was really well done,” says Timothy, “If every other one is as good as this one, I’ll definitely participate.” Despite the alone-in-a-crowd nature...