Word: digging
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REAL WHIRLED Luckily, we have yet to see Temptation Island for Tots. But even for children, an emphasis on the real world exists in home entertainment. Kids who dig machinery might want to check out the There Goes a ... series (Kid Vision). The 19 titles cover everything from roller coasters to fire engines. Those whose taste runs more to pigs than rigs should try Zoboomafoo (Warner Home Video), episodes from the TV series about animals...
...overturn the regulations, which went into effect Jan. 16. Businesses are howling that the 1,688 pages of standards they must meet could cost over $100 billion a year. But the opposition, citing figures of 600,000 people a year laid up by the injuries, is ready to dig in its heels. Repetitive-stress injuries from stretching, bending and typing are "the most significant safety and health problem that workers face today," argues Sen. Edward M. Kennedy...
...Bilham: Not exactly. There are people working very hard on figuring out when the big one will happen. We can dig down and figure out when things were last disturbed in quake activity, and then develop probabilities based on those findings. But these are just probabilities - earthquake prediction, as you can probably guess, is not a precise...
Like all construction sites, the library is fascinating in its assemblage and disarray. Concrete and glass are shored against future crises of construction or history. Of course, it's hardly the largest project around: beyond Cambridge, the Big Dig spills into campus life by means of odd detours en route to the North End and Hadean holes surrounding the airport...
...With Turkish politicians, the harder they're pressed, the harder they dig in. No one resigns out of accountability here. In fact, no one ever resigns for any reason whatsoever...