Word: escapees
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The public's right to recall a defective politician in California, as well as the right to pass legislation by ballot vote, was a populist reform inserted into the state constitution 100 years ago. These changes assumed a responsible electorate and a powerful, corrupt political class. The first assumption was...
As an icon of escape, Wolfgang Mattheuer's Die Flucht des Sisyphos (The Flight of Sisyphus), from 1972, is unmistakable. A worker is suspended in mid-stride, fleeing the path of the stone he has been pushing uphill; he's both dodging the plummeting boulder and heading for an idyllic...
"I love mining," says Fogle. "If I had to work in a factory, I'd go nuts. You can't walk away from it. The challenge. It's something different every day. It's Mother Nature--that's what you're fighting. You're taking the coal from it. It...
Died. Deng Liujin, 91, Chinese communist and one of the few women who completed the Long March; in Beijing. Deng stayed close to the Party after serving as a stretcher-bearer during the communist rebels' 1930s escape from Nationalist forces. Her husband, Zeng Shan, served as Minister of Internal Affairs...
Lastly, avoid the temptation to escape with your purchases by taxi or tuk tuk. The air-conditioned Skytrain is only 100 meters away from the northeastern market entrance at Mo Chit station (before the rail system was built, it took an hour to get here from downtown). And as Mo...