1.   The would-be island, now with hermetically sealed borders and excluding all but a few tourists, is full of noises.

2.   Recently Serbian helicopters have been brazenly flying supplies across the supposedly sealed border.

3.   They are not allowed telephone calls, letters, or any contact across the sealed border.

4.   A sealed border separates their populations.

5.   Conflict and drought have combined to drive hundreds of thousands of Afghans from their homes in recent years, sneaking across sealed borders to Iran and Pakistan.

6.   He cited the importance of fulfilling an agreement to build a railway and a parallel highway across the sealed border.

7.   Still, both sides have a heavy concentration of troops and firepower along the Demilitarized Zone, a mine-laced buffer zone on their sealed border.

8.   Their armies remain locked in a standoff across a sealed border, but the mood on the peninsula is considerably lighter.

9.   Their armies remain locked in a standoff across a sealed border, but the threat of war has diminished.

10.   The new leadership also closed airports, sealed borders, disbanded parliament and imposed a curfew.