11.   At a dusty border checkpoint surrounded by fences and watch towers, Israelis and Palestinians tried Sunday to rescue a peace effort bloodied by gun battles.

12.   Each day at the dusty border town of Torkham, hundreds of Afghan refugees gather to plead with Pakistani border guards to let them through, witnesses said.

13.   Human limbs were found among the ruins and debris of unexploded rockets and grenades that were still strewn across the dusty border town Sunday.

14.   But an Afghan soldier in the dusty border town rejected the accident theory.