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...files were hastily shredded after Schalck-Golodkowski fled to the West in 1989 to escape arrest by East German reformers. From a lakeside villa in Bavaria, he now complains that he has been made a scapegoat for corruption by higher-ups in the Communist Party. "Every piece of dirt suddenly landed at my feet," he says...
...pays taxes is a sucker. They're trapped, with kids and a mortgage and car payments, and they can't live. They're just existing. They work from 9 to 5, and they don't even know what day it is. All you gotta do is throw the dirt over them. I didn't want to take that road...
...jobs as writers for "Babes" and "Rick Dees' Into the Night" to drink grain alcohol and force new recruits to "assume the position"--'Poonsters poisoned the soil in front of the "Castle," an architectural atrocity former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has rightfully dubbed a "public urinal." The defouled dirt was intended to hold the seedlings for Freedom Tree II, an innocent flora-to-be nipped in the bud by the pathetic pranksters on Mount Auburn...
...gulf region is about to enter a particularly delicate period, when the shamal winds in Iran, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula create huge sandstorms that blow southward. This year's storms could suck up soot from the oil fires and unusually large amounts of dirt loosened by explosions and the movement of armies during the war. Intensified by heat from the fires, the storms could spread a mist of soot and oil across a belt of countries, ranging from Saudi Arabia to India. Apart from posing a health threat to the people closest to ground zero, the pollution is likely...
...daughter live at Ujantia's cyclone shelter, a concrete rectangle on 10-ft. stilts that can house up to 2,000 people. On the night of the storm, 7,000 villagers crowded the shelter, but now 389 families call it home. They huddle within its chipped and dirt-stained walls, a lucky few clutching their possessions: scraps of clothing, a blackened pot or a tin lamp...