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CATERPILLAR'S 12,600 STRIKING WORKERS IN PEOria, Ill., must have felt last week as if one of the company's mammoth earthmovers had just rolled over them. Despite the United Auto Workers' $800 million war chest (which could have provided up to $60,000 in benefits for every family on the picket line), the five-month-long siege suddenly collapsed. The union leadership failed to gain a single demand on wage and medical-care issues. The employees had to wait to be summoned back to work, while the company considered eliminating more than a thousand jobs. Many U.A.W. members...
...Procter & Gamble, charging that a company pulp mill has polluted the water around the town of Perry. Two weeks ago, she was attacked at her remote fishing camp by three men who beat her and burned her with a cigar. The men cut her on the cheek and chest and poured water from the contaminated river on the wounds, taunting her, she says, with the words "This is what you get for trying to make us lose our jobs." P&G denies any connection with the assault but has offered a $5,000 reward for the apprehension of McGuire...
Packed behind the pilot's seat in the Cessna, second in the jump order, I began to doubt my mission. I stared at the altimeter on my chest as the plane wore upward through the rapidly closing clouds. 1000 feet, 2000 feet, the ground looked too far but too close...
...lights were dimmed, and I laid on the couch, my head cushioned with a pillow and my arms crossed lightly on my chest...
...also uses the camera as an implement to trace the outlines of certain features. For example, the first time we encounter Martin's mother, we see the child Martin's hands outlining and feeling her lips, neck and chest; she reprimands him with the statement, "Fingers aren't the same as eyes...