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...kettle polished by sand particles in the deep-sea currents; three of the ship's safes; a porcelain doll's head; a patent-leather shoe. Most of the ship's woodwork had been devoured by marine creatures. Amid the debris were at least four of the Titanic's huge boilers; an unbroken porcelain coffee cup rested on one of them. Says Ballard: "It must have fluttered down like a leaf and settled on the boiler, which had come crashing down...
...English teacher, is not employed. The Luries are in a position typical for refuseniks--after applying for visas they frequently are expelled from their jobs or demoted to lower positions in the same occupation. During our trip we met many mathematicians, metereologists, chemical engineers, who now work as boiler-men, photo-developers and bookkeepers. Similarly, school administrators usually expelled students, whose parents applied for emigration, from universities, institutes and high schools...
...hate going to sections. Not only are my section times usually between five in the afternoon and nine in the morning, but they are always in the worst possible locations. Therefore, at eight o'clock on Friday night I find myself sweating to death in the Boylston boiler room, or on the fifth floor of the Peabody Museum, wedged between two stuffed wolverines in attack posture. "Wanna go out tonight, Ben?" "No thanks, guys. I have to go to the basement of the Semitic Museum and learn about skinks...
Looking into the cellar, Ponder found a boiler that needed $350,000 in repairs just to pass municipal inspection. He called in an engineer from the Fisk class of '57, Vander Harris, a maintenance genius he had known in South Carolina. Harris got the boiler going for $60,000. To this day, Harris attends to the nuts and bolts of running Fisk. "We can't afford thermostats," he was saying recently. "Either the heat is on or off. You just have to figure out the retention rate of your buildings." Always looking for ways to save a buck, Harris...
...worry for my family which now is in danger. Don't you f-----g understand? My father is dangerous. Right now he lost control. We have to get away from him, but he's then not gonna have anybody. He broke the thermometer of the apartment and the boiler is becoming into flames. I don't know if this letter will reach you. I can't sleep. He screams out of control. Everyone in the house is awake at 12:30. I don't know if we'll ever sleep today. I just can't hold on too long. Every...