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...takes a lien for the few dollars owed and orders the protester's bank to turn over the money, for which some banks charge the depositor $5 to $20. If a bank account cannot be found, the IRS looks for other assets. In Boulder, Colo., Bob Marcus owed $ 1.25 in phone tax, whereupon the IRS seized his Volkswagen, auctioned it for $277, deducted the tax, and gave him the balance...
...book has several elements that recur in The Stranger: the sun-drenched Algerian setting, a restless clerk named Mersault whose mother dies, a restaurant keeper named Celeste. This Mersault, more open and spontaneous than in The Stranger, sees himself as a Sisyphus whose particular boulder is office work-"those eight hours a day other people can stand." He pours out his frustration to a rich man named Zagreus who has no legs. Zagreus tells him, "I'd accept even worse - blind, dumb, anything, as long as I feel in my belly that dark fire that is me, me alive...
...lunar lander, Orion. As the rover's television camera followed them, they threaded their way down North Ray's steep slopes, going deeper into a large crater than any of the eight previous moon walkers. Inside the crater wall, they chipped away at a huge house-sized boulder that might be at least 4 billion years...
...Boulder, Colo...
...large doses of potassium-spiked orange juice prescribed by doctors to counteract the effects of weightlessness (see MEDICINE). The strange potion did not seem to bother him on the second moon walk, when the astronauts took more core samples, picked up rocks, and pushed over a large boulder to collect soil from underneath it (so scientists can compare the effects of cosmic-ray bombardment on varying soil samples). They drove the rover several hundred feet up Stone Mountain and, after parking it on what they thought was a dangerously steep slope, they simply picked it up and put it down...