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Britain is crawling with so-called metal detectorists, who make a hobby - and often an obsession - out of unearthing treasure from the country's rich past. Occasionally they strike gold, like Terry Herbert, a 55-year-old Staffordshire man who, it was announced Sept. 24, discovered more than 11 lb...
Anyone who has read Ackroyd's bestselling London: The Biography (2000) - or almost any of the 40 volumes of fiction, biography, history and literary criticism he has written since the 1970s - will know that London is his consuming passion, that his reading of history is distinctively nonlinear, and that his...
It is estimated that Murdoch will save $84 million a year by printing his papers at Wapping. News International officials are willing to discuss severance benefits with the strikers, but they insist that the printers' unions will never represent employees at Wapping. At the moment, the fired workers are in...
The implications stretch beyond Wapping. As Murdoch proved by hiring electricians to replace the printers, the historic solidarity of the British union movement is cracking. Following Fleet Street's example, other recalcitrant unions, notably those representing teachers and autoworkers, may be forced to modify their demands. Some government officials even...
For the moment, however, it is Murdoch's journalists who are the most impressed by Wapping. Crouched over typewriters just a month ago, they now sit in front of glowing screens, moving paragraphs around electronically, deleting clumsy sentences, calling up notes. The exclamations of wonderment among American journalists when computer...