Charles remained in Wichita, with his wife and two children, guarding his privacy while supporting community charities.
On the road leading to the Syed family home, children guarded a homemade roadblock the other day, clutching stones.
With these, they face helicopters that the Lao army regularly sends to tame the "bandits," who survive on wild roots gathered by columns of women and children, guarded by a few armed men.
The Disney series Gargoyles depicted the Weird Sisters, named "Luna", "Phoebe" and "Selene", as three of the most powerful of Oberon's children, guarding his mystical realm of Avalon from intrusion by other wielders of magic.
In places, a middle ground can be seen: leaving a substitute blockade — a child safety guard, an air-conditioning unit, even an insect screen — in the window as a sort of buffer.
Their gingerbread house may be the only one in existence with child guards.
During his 15 years in the South Bronx, Nilo Montalvo says, he has lived in a neighborhood behind bars: vertical rods, child guards, wrought-iron fencing — all wedged into the windows of ground-floor apartments, like his, in a housing project on East 144th Street.
Tide is trying to crack down on the fad, putting child guards on its packaging, getting Rob Gronkowski to yell "No!" at would-be detergent eaters, and asking folks on Twitter who claim they've chomped into a pod to call Poison Control.
As military trucks and tanks raced back and forth, children stood guard over husked wheat kernels that were spread out for drying in rectangular patches along the road.
