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...door was locked. So I pulled out my revolver and knocked. When I heard the click of the latch, I rammed the door with my left shoulder and pushed cold steel into the guy's face...
...central Tennessee or western West Virginia, no one sees the poverty but the poor. There are no growing industries in these regions--no biotechnology, no computer software developing, no international banking. The economy still relies on the vanishing coal and steel industries. As natural resources evaporate, so do livelihoods. Viewed by outsiders as "white trash", the people of Appalachia are not the most apt to be defended by average concerned citizens. But without a voice, these people can only suffer the indignity of leaving their homes for cities in a simple effort to survive...
Everyone knows the Titanic sank because an iceberg cut a huge gash in its side. But everybody's wrong, says a group of naval architects and marine engineers. Extensive sea-bottom photos of the ship show no gash. The real problem was the ship's steel plating, which was inherently brittle, say the experts -- even a small impact could have caused major cracks. The Titanic's sister ships, the Olympic and the Britannic, made from the same steel, are known to have suffered such cracks...
...most of Horn's eccentric machines aren't so overblown as this. The image of sex-as-mechanism is one of the oldest tropes in modern art. A century has passed since Joris-Karl Huysmans, the "decadent" novelist, invited the reader to see the workings of an engine as "steel Romeos inside cast-iron Juliets"; the idea of a "desiring machine" has been explored by a lot of art since then, from early Picabia and Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), through the Surrealists in the '30s, and so down...
...cited 160 responsible parties. At the Petro Processors sites near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where 62 acres of land are saturated with liquid petrochemical wastes, cleanup is expected to last well into the 22nd century, in part because of endless lawsuits filed by and against the large corporations -- including U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Exxon Corp. and Allied Chemical -- charged with polluting. Bryant Conway, an attorney who represents a landowner with property near the Petro Processors sites, says the companies he deals with use lawyers to stall the cleanup process by legal means. "None of the ceos of these companies wants...