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...floor of the tomb, he was overwhelmed by the smell. Feng remembers nothing after that. Later his uncle told him he had fainted from the putrid air and had to be dragged out. The operation was halted until the next night when the looters lugged in an industrial air blower to clear out the tomb. After his uncle and another villager emerged with the first of five Tang-dynasty ceramic animals--each worth about $10,000 in the West--the young Feng felt a touch of proprietary pride. "I risked my life for those statues," he says. "But when they...
...tunnel 115 ft. deep is excavated. The gang uses ropes to lower members and gear into the hole. An AIR BLOWER powered by a PORTABLE GENERATOR pumps in fresh air from the surface...
...BLOWER An industrial electric fan pumps fresh air down the tunnel shaft to ventilate the burial chamber...
...unethical corner cutting, since their ties to the firm tend to be stronger than those of free agents who hopscotch from job to job. And they know how to unjam the copier. One reason Enron, a company packed with hotshots, went bankrupt was that good, solid employees--like whistle-blower Sherron Watkins--were shunted aside in the gold rush. "B players strive for advancement but not at all costs. This attitude is anathema to most A players," DeLong and co-author Vineeta Vijayaraghavan recently wrote in the Harvard Business Review...
...California officials, Kaiser agreed to terminate McEnany's practice review and not file a report to the medical board of California, as the hospital was required to do. When officials at Luther Hospital ran a routine background check on McEnany, there were no red flags. Had a Kaiser whistle-blower not tipped off the California medical board in 1996, sparking an investigation that led to McEnany's surrender of his licenses in California and Wisconsin, he could still be practicing. Instead, he is fighting off the remainder of 28 lawsuits filed against him between 1998 and 2000. Although McEnany declined...