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...hardiness. They, along with Gujaratis from the interior, have fashioned a sturdy local economy from the only two gifts nature has bestowed on this land: salt and sea ports. Over centuries, that economy built cities like Bhuj, Bachchau, Anjar and Rapar. It took the quake just 45 seconds to flatten them...
...exchange for your efforts, this haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world. Ware captures landscapes made to flatten emotion--a clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex--and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk. His is a graphic version of the anomie found in a Raymond Carver short story, with a social-historic sweep and unexpected, if fleeting, grace notes. And that may be this melancholy book's uplifting message: even in the most emotionally barren settings, there...
...goal in judo is similar to that in wrestling: outpoint your opponent by outmaneuvering him, or flatten him on the mat for a pin, or ippon. There are a couple of neat options too, such as squeezing the other guy's neck in a choke hold or an armlock until he says uncle. World Wrestling Federation fans, you'll like this...
...goal in judo is similar to that in wrestling: outpoint your opponent by outmaneuvering him, or flatten him on the mat for a pin, or ippon. There are a couple of neat options too, such as squeezing the other guy's neck in a choke hold or an armlock until he says uncle. World Wrestling Federation fans, you'll like this...
...city's former rulers. The gunmen who ran the town before the Russians were no good, he says, but the troops are even worse. His view is moderate in comparison with the feelings of some in the crowd. "Gudermes invited the Russians in because we knew they would flatten the city," says a 19-year-old named Salman. "The fighters will be back. Sooner or later, snipers will start killing Russians," he adds approvingly...