Word: asphalting
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Renaissance writers insisted it destroyed grass, tarnished mirrors and dissolved asphalt. The sight of it, Australian aborigines believe, can turn a man's hair gray. Until 1967, campers at Glacier National Park were warned that its odor can incite bears to attack...
Last week at New York City's 42-year-old House of Detention for Men on Rikers Island, about 1,500 inmates, who were out on the catwalks for free time, swarmed in every direction, some passing through holes gouged between the asphalt walls of the cell blocks. Prisoners carried broken pipes, broomsticks and rocks. A few quickly seized five guards as hostages. The inmates, more than 80% of whom are black or Puerto Rican, rapidly gained control of six of the eight cell blocks, but guards thwarted a takeover of cell block 6 by pitching tear-gas into...
...previously unmarked boundary; atop it were Moroccan flags and huge portraits of Hassan. After moving into the Sahara in a great human flood a half-mile abreast, the marchers soon narrowed into a column eight to ten people wide and began raggedly shuffling down the single-lane asphalt road in the direction of Aaiūn, Sahara's capital. A huge paratrooper distributed paperback copies of the Koran, which the marchers waved as they chanted, "Allah akbar [God is great]," "The Sahara is Moroccan," "Long live King Hassan...
...Spanish authorities claim they have buried more than 20,000 explosive devices throughout the area. We were told that the mines had been placed only within a mile of either side of the road. This means the marchers could proceed safely if they were willing to leave the asphalt and brave the inhospitable desert...
...appealed mostly to preadolescents in its first incarnation, the majority of its adherents now range in age from nine to 25; a 72-year-old Angeleno recently bought a new model in order, he explained, to spend more time with his board-bound grandchildren. Many of the most proficient asphalt athletes are surfers who have come ashore, and they claim that the two sports demand many of the same skills. Says SkateBoarder Editor Warren Bolster: "You can go out and do the same things you do on a surfboard, but it's something you can do any time. Surfing...