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...doing his bidding. But he has sanctioned a purge of 40 generals that put the army even more firmly under his control. Army ordnance has relentlessly pummeled Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, and other cities. Shells and sniper fire make a target of anyone not cowering in a basement; food supplies are dwindling to a dangerous level. Jovan Divjak, head of the mainly Muslim Bosnian Territorial Defense force, called on non-Serb Sarajevans to fight "even if you have no weapons...
...from going anywhere you want." It usually was possible to drive right into a battle -- and impossible to avoid shelling and sniper fire; some of his friends were in fact killed. To militiamen in a civil war, says Chris, "if you're a civilian you're down in a basement. If you're above ground you must be another combatant, and you're fair game." How can one take pictures under those conditions? "You don't," says Morris simply. "You spend most of the time hiding in ditches and basements." He adds, though, that "you develop an instinct" for knowing...
...went into the basement and saw a 2000-gallon water drum that Jim had made out of copper. Water heats in the solar panels up on the roof, and flows down to this thermal bank. An industrial computer listens to thermometers throughout the house and controls a pump which sends hot water to cool places. The water flows through a rubber tube under the strips of metal that Jim called "radiant." The water warms the radiant, and the radiant warms the room...
...with us again; he had done the solar work here as well. By this point I had had about enough lecturing on solar power for one day. There was the same copper tank in the basement and the same talk about thermal efficiency, floor radiant and sweat equity...
...events quickly conspired to intensify that dread. A crowd of protesters, mainly black, outraged by the acquittals, gathered before dusk at L.A. police headquarters. Some tried to storm the doors; others sheared off toward nearby city hall, where Mayor Tom Bradley had taken up a command post in the basement. A flag was set on fire; a booth in a parking lot sprouted flames. Under the night sky, patches of Los Angeles began to burn...