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Conroy's expansive storytelling style tends to disarm criticism. But he goes too far when the Holocaust bears down on Beach Music like a runaway cement barge. First, McCall's Jewish wife jumps off a bridge after having her father's concentration-camp number tattooed on her arm; she wants to join Europe's murdered Jews. Conroy later inserts long sections about pogroms in czarist Russia, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi death camps to explain the suicide. They don't. The historical carpetbagging doesn't add much of anything to the novel except a few unnecessarily grisly shocks...
...central Japan, which killed seven and injured more than 200. Meanwhile, his wife Tomoko Matsumoto, 36, is in the process of taking control of the group, which has yet to see major defections. Fear may be a factor: reports say Aum members under arrest have confessed that a cement-grinding machine found at the cult's main commune was used to pulverize the bones of members who died during initiation rites or were otherwise done away with...
Suddenly a fireman heard a thin voice crying for help as though from deep in a cave. Dana Bradley, 20, lay in the darkness of the basement under a pile of cement girders, bleeding and her body dangerously cooling in a foot of water. But when a team of four fire fighters found her, they faced one harsh decision after another. That southwest corner of the building was highly unstable; there were girders smashed everywhere, with hundreds of tons of the remaining building above them. Bradley was lodged in a space so small that the doctors could scarcely reach...
...more than 800 different commercially available ANFO preparations. One of the more common mixtures uses pellets of ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel to form a semiliquid that has a consistency of mayonnaise. Because of ANFO's stability, it is usually transported in heavy- duty trucks that often resemble cement mixers. Or construction crews can mix it on site by combining bags of high-grade ammonium nitrate with drums full of fuel...
...lead to face-to-face contact, not away from it.'' At its best, the sprawling Internet brings together people with mutual interests who, for reasons ranging from geography to social and income disparity, would otherwise never have met. These virtual friendships can lead to physical encounters that may cement lifelong relationships. ``The cybercommunity is not separate from your community of friends; it's just not geographically local,'' says Carolyn Ybarra, an anthropology Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University. When Ybarra moved west from Minneapolis, her online quilting group threw an in-person farewell party. Since then, she has become good friends...