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Most of the ceiling in Stoughton North 29 fell to the floor just before noon yesterday, sending dust and large chunks of plaster raining down on the heads of the students in the room and on their possessions...
...didn't really see what happened, there was a lot of dust," Lyons said. "We just got out of there...
Asbestos--a fibrous mineral--was widely used as insulation during the mid-1900s. When its dust was found to be carcinogenic in the '60s and '70s, the insulation quickly fell in popularity...
Jimmy Corrigan requires a similar intensity from the reader. Ware's work is languorous but dense, interspersed with tiny print and pictures that force one to crane over it, literally trying to enter the book. Many of the spreads, including the fold-open dust jacket, are crazy quilts, stitched with dotted lines and arrows, as if the very seams were straining to contain the story. "You have to keep turning the book," says New Yorker cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who first nationally published Ware in Raw magazine. "It's a dizzy-making, Oz-like tornado that takes you out of Kansas...
...perhaps it takes an eccentric farmer to object to paving. A hard road, well maintained, would reduce a working farmer's work, make it easier from him to bring crops and dairy cans and livestock to market. Maybe it is offensively yuppie of me to sit out here wiping dust off my computer screen and hoarding my elite seclusion. (On the other hand, I pay honestly for it by driving two and a half hours if I want to go to the city...