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...Spring, Md., last May, the doctors' immediate concern was a bullet lodged somewhere in Wallace's abdomen. To probe for that bullet, the surgeons made a vertical incision, beginning just below Wallace's rib cage and extending along his right side. What they found was an Augean mess. Before the missile came to rest in the muscles of Wallace's abdominal wall, it had blasted through his intestinal tract in several places, splashing undigested food into the abdominal cavity. To clean this out, the doctors lifted Wallace's intestines out of the body cavity...
Last week's cleanup, titled "The Thing in the Spring," was not a headline project. It was hardly a billion-dollar item and scarcely caused much of a dent in New York City's Augean malaise. But, along with dozens of similar efforts across the nation, it demonstrated-even as Congress balks at the billion-dollar programs that are truly needed-that individual hands and hearts are committed to alleviating the wretchedness of the inner city...
...ramshackle freight train that wandered erratically for 33 days across six countries before setting him down at last in sunny Italy. The journey had its bits of humor: Captain Egorov, commander of a repatriation camp, met the news of an imminent general inspection by swathing the Augean public latrine in an impenetrable tangle of barbed wire. The journey also had its vestiges of horror: Daniele, a sole survivor of a Nazi raid on the Venice ghetto, put bread on the ground before starving German prisoners of war and forced them to crawl on all fours to get it. Slowly...
...Laborites-as even most Tories now admit-inherited an Augean mess...
...Augean bookstalls fill...