Glass is everywhere in blast-shattered Beirut, except where it's supposed to be
BEIRUT - Broken glass seems everywhere in this city.
It's there in shiny, debris-filled mounds at the entrances to buildings. In single slivers lurking like spies in remote corners of apartments. In clumps that crunch underfoot in the street like freshly fallen snow reflecting the day's last sunlight. A month after a gargantuan explosion ripped through Beirut on Aug. 4, people are still digging out glass shards from clothes, bedsheets, even skin.
The blast - caused by the detonation of a carelessly stored stockpile of 2,755 tons of ammonium nitrate in Beirut's port - killed almost 200 people, injured thousands and pulverized whole neighborhoods. Its pressure wave hurtled for miles through the Lebanese capital, blowing out windowpanes in a citywide bloom of
