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...like a small construction site, with piles of boards, bolts, rails, ties and electrical power equipment. The wires on this equipment are regularly checked lest a miner be electrocuted. Facing the wall of coal is a continuous coal mining machine called "the beast." The machine's whirling blades chew into the seam with a roaring noise like an avalanche, spewing chunks of coal back into waiting coal cars, which are equipped with robot-like "gathering arms" that channel the flow. The load is then trundled back along the tracks and automatically unloaded onto a conveyor-belt system that lifts...
...went through several sets of false teeth after smasinng ins jaw in a 1957 automobile accident. He found them all so uncomfortable and unsatisfactory that he actually took them out winle eating. Since being fitted with a mandibular staple in 1969, he has eaten everytinng, including such hard-to-chew foods as carrots...
...through neighborhoods separated not by miles but by centuries. In the distance one walks to get from the McDonald's in Central Square to the Brigham's in Harvard Square, a Bolivian could walk from the luxury hotels of downtown LaPaz to the adobe huts of Aymara Indians who chew cocoa leaves and eat dried potatoes like their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Ill-clad Indian children sell two joints of marijuana for ten cents behind the 35-story Hilton Hotel in downtown Bogota, Columbia, and recently-arrived mothers from the mountains beg in the shopping district of Lima...
...Harvard Summer School's administrative board decided this week that it had bitten off more than it could chew in the case of 20 Summer School students charged with cheating in Physics S-1, "Elements of Physics...
...will be wanting as Wakeman will have 10 tons of keyborads, a one-hundred piece symphony orchestra and choir, and a very special guest narrator. Although Wakeman has always been considered one of the best keyboard men in the business, he might have bitten off more than he could chew with this production. October 5 at the Music Hall. Two shows 7 and 10. Tickets $5.00, 6.00, 7.00 available at Ticketron, Minuteman-Soundscope, box office...