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...wrong.'' The Revolutionaries ripped open mattresses, cut the upholstery of the chairs and sofas, removed tiles from the walls of the bathrooms, poked in the fireplace and the chimney, lifted floorboards, climbed onto the roof, fished in the water tank under the ceiling and crawled under the floor. Darkness had long descended on the city when they decided to dig up the garden. They switched on the terrace lights and started digging. The damp, ash-covered lawn was trampled into a sea of mud; all the flower beds were dug up, and spades were sunk into the earth around...
...pushed the bolt back with a loud clang. I looked around the room, and my heart sank. Cobwebs dangled from the ceiling; the once whitewashed walls were yellow with age and streaked with dust. The single naked bulb was coated with grime and extremely dim. Patches of the cement floor were black with dampness. A strong musty smell pervaded the air. I hastened to open the only small window, with its rust-pitted iron bars. When I succeeded in pulling the knob and the window swung open, flakes of peeling paint as well as a shower of dust fell...
...scene of hell, full of emaciated human beings in tattered clothes, with pain and agony clearly written on their wasted faces, waiting patiently for the end. Besides the hunched figures on the benches, there were others wrapped in patched quilts lying on dirty canvas stretchers on the cement floor. When I was finally sent to see a doctor, she said I had high fever and probably had pneumonia. For the next few days, I drifted in and out of consciousness. When my mind came into focus again, I found my arm bound to the side...
...make them provide false evidence.) In the spring of 1969, after nearly three years in prison, I was handcuffed and taken back to that same building where I had watched the crowd ''struggle'' against Shell's chief accountant, Tao Feng. I was half-thrown, half-dropped onto the floor. One man kept his hand on my head so that I could not look around. The other people in the room were shouting slogans demanding my downfall and destruction. ''Here she is!'' shouted the meeting's leader. ''We have brought her here so that she will be exposed for what...
...certainty. However, Holdren said, the price of such a consensus is an understatement of the severity of the consequences of global warming due to the wide range of views that were taken into account. “Most people who are experts would say the IPCC is a conservative floor on what we know,” he said. “The reality is likely to be worse than the middle of the road.” Addressing the ramifications of the panel’s findings, Holdren said the report should be seen as an urgent reminder...