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Anderson covered a medley of topics ranging from Czechoslovakian cave writings and a new theme park in Barcelona she is designing with Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel to the Kennedy-Smith rape trial. Throughout Voices From the Beyond, however, she emphasized and repeatedly investigated ambitious topics of art, censorship, freedom and power. The Persian Gulf War and U.S. politics were the focus of her concern...
...insist if the U.S. promised troops and appointed an American supreme commander for the whole South Pacific. Churchill, unwilling to withdraw the Australians then battling Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in Libya, suggested to Roosevelt that a general of MacArthur's eminence might prove valuable. In his sweltering cave on Corregidor, MacArthur received by radio on Feb. 23 a presidential order to get to Australia to "assume command of all United States troops...
Pete Spradlin was four when his father was killed in a local mine at 27. Pete was taken in by his grandfather, whose skull was crushed in a cave-in when Pete was 13. Now, at 44, Spradlin works the same rolling seam of coal -- Chilton, it is called -- that his father and grandfather did. Each morning Spradlin enters the Bantam Mine, crouching to clear the sign that reads WORK SAFE AND ENJOY LIFE. But Spradlin has had his own close calls -- a gashed lip that took 16 stitches, a couple of cracked ribs, a broken finger, two teeth knocked...
...federal Mine Safety and Health Administration insists that the mines are safer now than ever before. In fact, catastrophic cave-ins are largely a thing of the past. The number of miners killed each year is between 60 and 70, about half the annual toll of a decade ago. But MSHA statistics also suggest that serious injuries -- those that result in some loss of work -- may be on the rise. After dipping to an annual average of 9,500 injuries during the mid- 1980s, they increased to an average of more than 12,000 a year over the past four...
This incident is different. Several aspects of the vandalism, which caused portions of the roof to cave in and left half the sukkah unusable, strongly suggest that this incident was motivated by anti-Semitism. University officials and police are taking the issue seriously; they have been in touch with Hillel Director Sally Finestone, and are pursuing an investigation to find the perpetrators...