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...Which is really in the tradition of Houdini, who was an escape artist but who was really doing things: training hard, keeping a serious regimen. For the coffin, I read about an Indian fakir who was buried alive for a month. I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there. I got a coffin in Brooklyn and I started practicing sleeping in it. I stayed in it for four days on my first shot with just short bathroom breaks. For the full seven days, I needed...
...troops around, in mismatched uniforms, as well as a secondary commander, but the designated platoon was nowhere to be found. "The army is very good at what they do," said Zemp. "They just have a problem with sleeping in." Once the Iraqi detail arrived, they stomped down the same dirt path that U.S. troops had already patrolled, only to be called back and redirected. "I was sleeping," their commander shrugged as he greeted Zemp...
...just gazed at her with heavy-lidded eyes. “Yes, Viscountess,” he said. “It will be very, very hard.” She could not look at him anymore; her eyes fastened upon the dirty straw at her feet, trampled into dirt. She said, softly: “Perhaps we can find a mare to begin with. A gentle mare.”“There is a stallion that my lord bought a fortnight ago,” he said. “He is a wild breed, from...
...penchant for rebranding roads is part of the culture of reinvention that has pervaded the city since its settlement in 1630 (when it was known as Newetowne, by the way). We change street names in the same way that we pave them, leaving the earlier memories of dirt, cobblestone, and asphalt underneath. History isn’t static, and each successive generation should add its own layer...
...Mehlman, then working for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, approached his employers and other public and private groups and successfully solicited additional funding for Tayna. The project expanded, and by 2003, the community had built its own university specializing in environmental studies. "Seven hours up a dirt track, a people in the midst of a civil war realized their future depended on conservation biology," says Mehlman. "It's the most inspiring thing I've seen in my whole life...