1.   A ragged, anguished woman begged a visitor she met in the dusty ruined street for spare eyeglasses.

2.   For a brief moment Wednesday morning, amid the suffering that engulfed the World Trade Center, a cheer rang down the ruined streets.

3.   In Nablus, meanwhile, the gunfire cracks through the ruined streets, helicopters blast militant positions with rocket bursts, and terrified inhabitants huddle in houses.

4.   Only a few clumps of people walked the ruined streets of Djakovica, most for the first time in two and a half months.

5.   The Kosovo Liberation Army took Glogovac on Tuesday morning, holding an impromptu victory stroll down the ruined main street of this ethnic Albanian town.

6.   The ruined streets were quiet Wednesday.

7.   Their races down alleyways and ruined streets have reintroduced a rural life and freedom left behind decades ago in the northern migration.

8.   Although the ruined streets of Grozny are severely potholed, the backhoes have hacked at all but the main boulevards for two days to make them more impassable.

9.   Authorities said they were limiting access to those with permits to avoid clogging ruined streets with traffic.

10.   Chechens in the ruined streets of Grozny, now decorated with the green-red-white independence flag, are also in no mood for compromise with Russia.