Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everybody is happy with the project. The noise and the dust--which prompted the University to strike a deal with the MBTA for $1 million dollars for soundproofing and other construction activities--have angered may residents, who fear the Square will never look the same...
Approached by road through the forbidding, dust-brown wastes of Israel's Negev desert, it does not look much like a prison. The buildings, flanked by two concrete watchtowers, are single-story and look like huts. At first glance, the place might be just another secret government installation. It is in fact a three-month-old, maximum-security prison located 70 km south ,of Beersheba. Until late last month hardly any Israeli or foreigner had heard of Nafha prison, which is designed to hold at full capacity 110 hard-core security offenders. But today Nafha is fast becoming...
...Swiss border, into a bomb shelter that even the Guide Michelin might approve. Behind a 1½-ton steel and reinforced concrete door and enclosed within 4 ft.-thick walls, the room is equipped with a hand-cranked ventilator that sucks in outside air and could filter out radioactive dust. Most evenings, the fare includes steaks, omelets and salads. Come the holocaust, though, Deur's village clientele will be treated to a repast of freeze-dried haricots verts, vacuum-packed charcuterie and as much French wine as survives the first blast. The dining room ordinarily seats...
VERY FEW COURT BATTLES are really dry as dust, and obscenity cases add an element of chivalry: the earnest prosecutor, determined to protect the vaginas of women from exposure and licking; the eloquent defender, just as committed to guaranteeing the rights of those who would ejaculate in front of cameras and those who would pay money to watch...
...sweltering St. Louis, calls for ambulances rose to 350 a day, almost double the normal level. Many of the city's elderly, explained Health Commissioner Helen Bruce, "live in areas they consider dangerous, so they have nailed their windows down and keep their doors locked." During the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s, St. Louis residents beat the heat by sleeping in parks or along the Mississippi river front. Today, says one police officer, "you'd have to sleep with a shotgun...