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...floor above them, in a large, dark laboratory, works a team of archaeologists, scraping the dirt off a pile of shards and filing various artifacts into hundreds of cardboard boxes that line an entire wall. "This place is conducive to doing work that has no real theme to it," says one. "Accessibility is pretty important too," adds another. "We work pretty odd hours...
...spikes. A few strides in front of the finish line, they kicked past Cornell's third man. When Rippy stopped after crossing the finish line. Cornell's man crashed into his back, unable to stop in the slippery letter. The upended Rippy became the bottom layer of a runner pile-up at the muddy finish line...
...militiamen had begun to fall back from their northernmost penetration of the camps. At 9 a.m., the two Oukli brothers were able to return to some parts of Shatila from the Gaza Hospital area without encountering any of the killers. When the Ouklis reached their home, they found a pile of 15 dead, mostly their relatives, outside the door...
...farm failures. Even many secure and usually prosperous farmers are feeling the pinch. "You've heard farmers bitching all your life," says Chappel Sides, 53, a cotton, soybean and peanut farmer near Coffeeville, Miss. "But when an above-average farmer makes an above-average crop and loses a pile of money, you know something's wrong. We're just right on the verge of a sure-enough tragedy...
...into a princess. Close the book, shut your eyes, dream sweet, romantic dreams, and give no thought to what "ever after" might mean, except some sort of indescribable, endless happiness. Grimm's would never have ended the story the way it really ended last week, in a tangled, twisted pile of metal at the bottom of a ravine. Fairy tales don't end in car wrecks...