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While they were gone, a man approached Adnan and asked him if he was with the journalist. Adnan said yes, and then got behind the wheel of the car to move it into the shade. Seconds later he heard a loud crack from behind him and was showered with shattered glass - someone had destroyed his back windshield. Adnan didn't see who did it. But he says many Iraqis equate American reporters with American forces and figures that's why his car was attacked.

• It's About the Bubbles: It may sound sacrilegious coming from a reporter based in the Land of Evian and Perrier, but Peter Ford says he doesn't really care where his water comes from so long as it is wet ( see story). But he does, occasionally, feel like bubbles, and in Paris, he has an embarras de choix [an embarrassment of choices]. "There's gentle bubbles, heavy bubbles, big bubbles and light bubbles in a range of different mineral waters," he notes. Peter opts for the heavy fizz. But he is still nostalgic for the service offered when he lived in Buenos Aires, where a company delivered crates of glass seltzer bottles, tinted pale blue or green, outside his front door each Monday morning. And he's not picky about the carbonation process. "Who cares whether the fizz comes from a cylinder of carbon dioxide at the bottling plant or occurs naturally underground?" he asks.

David Clark Scott
World editor

Cultural snapshot

		SIGNED BY ALLAH? Palestinians gathered to see a lamb born Monday in Hebron with what looks like "God" spelled out on its coat in Arabic. NAYEF HASHLAMOUN/REUTERS

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