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After about eight months-enough time for radioactivity to decrease to safe levels-mining engineers will drill three holes from the surface to the top of the "chimney" of fractured rock. Through these holes, sulfuric acid will be poured into the chimney, where it will dissolve copper out of the rock. The solution, containing copper sulfate, will then drain into holes drilled at the bottom of the chimney and be pumped up through a shaft to a precipitation plant at the surface. There the solution will be processed to extract metallic copper, and the recovered sulfuric acid recycled for another...
...welcomed by a star, a chimney sweep...
Pack 'Em In. The possibility arises that Goldman himself is Dorff, ironically, making a new life for himself as a Jew. "This isn't a rest cure," he barks at one point. "Back to work, scum. Nobody gets out except through the chimney!" Soon, a team of Israeli agents appears. They kidnap him and take him to Israel to stand trial...
...building had no sprinklers-tried to douse the flames with hand extinguishers, but retreated in the fast-gathering heat and smoke. Panic seized the some 3,000 people in the store (including 1,200 employees) as the fire spread unchecked, feeding on the inflammable goods and fanned by a chimney-like draft from the store's cavernous central well...
...machine-gun nest. Though they found a number of rare birds, they were disappointed at total counts, which were as small as 100 species. And in Illinois, 50 members of the Champaign County Audubon Society slogged through mud and rain, uphill and down, for views of herons and chimney swifts, wood ducks and Blackburnian warblers-and a day's total...