But even sharpshooters do not usually enter densely packed neighborhoods to hunt deer.

As with many urban campuses, the school's classrooms, lecture halls and laboratories are scattered throughout a densely packed neighborhood.

Israeli tanks and troops charged into a densely packed neighborhood here before dawn today and killed 12 Palestinians, including wanted militants and a 2-year-old boy, according to Palestinian officials.

But the marines are not allowed to pursue insurgents through Falluja's densely packed neighborhoods or to seize any more of the city.

The runway approach comes perilously close to one of Kowloon's densely packed neighborhoods - so close that passengers about to land can see families preparing dinner in nearby apartments.

Mr. Abreu said that his densely packed neighborhood, which had seen more than its share of drug violence over the years, seemed to be getting more dangerous.

The army carries out raids almost nightly in densely packed neighborhoods, which are poorly lighted and unmarked.

But a helicopter helped pour water on the flames, and the firefighters succeeded in preventing them from spreading through the densely packed neighborhood around the opera house.

The killings in Alexandra today occurred in a wretchedly poor and densely packed neighborhood of sabby brick houses and wooden shanties roofed with corrugated metal.

"And here we are, a packed neighborhood bar, even if most of the neighborhood isn't here yet."