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...Western Europe is playing the function of the canary in the cage in the mineshaft,” he said. “Are we all surrounded by air of a particularly toxic source...
...discovered drugs and vodka and immersed himself in the luxurious pre-AIDS life of rich gays. He developed a passion for Studio 54, even staying after it closed to help the waiters count change. Then it was on to Flamingo, a gay after-hours club. Final stop was the Mineshaft, a "warren of rooms crowded with men, many openly having sex . . . no cologne or Lacoste shirts, only work clothes and leather allowed." At home, the authors say, Klein plied hustlers with cocaine and Quaaludes, and the wonder is that he has survived at all. Finally, in 1988, he entered...
...fifth force, if that is what it is, has been a source of debate among physicists since its existence was suggested in 1981 by Australian mineshaft experiments. Five years later, Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach measured a weak force he called "hypercharge" and theorized that it caused objects of different composition to fall at different rates. Since Fischbach's finding, as many as 45 experiments have sprung up in search of the mystery force, and so far each has served only to confound rather than clarify the issue...
...onetime auto mechanic who grew up in Andover, Mass., Leno began his comedy career playing strip clubs in Boston. Among his earliest gigs were a bordello in Dorchester, Mass., and a club called the Mineshaft, where audience members wore miner's hats with flashlights on top ("Performing there was like being interrogated by the police," he recalls). Leno eventually graduated to the big time, and in recent years has played a grueling 300 road dates a year, besides making frequent guest appearances with Letterman...
...Soviet intervention. He was right, even though the last important strike or sit-in against Poland's three-week-old martial law regime ended at the Piast mine in Silesia last week when 1,100 weary and hungry workers decided to give up their demonstration after occupying their mineshaft for 14 days. But across Poland, a wave of passive resistance was beginning to swell. In Szczecin, dockworkers were reported to be loading and unloading the same goods over and over again; at the Zeran auto plant in Warsaw, workers were said to be making parts that would...