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...platform diving. McCormick once ticked the 10-meter platform with one leg after taking off, and "lost the water" (lost track of her position in the air). She landed badly, and the impact enlarged what she figures was a small cut on her shin to an ugly eight-inch gash, whose scar is still there. Seufert bruised the back of her neck severely in hitting the water on a 10-meter dive, later reinjured herself the same way, and eventually noticed a tingling in her fingers. A neurologist told her that if she continued to land on her neck...
...spine," as planners call it, formed an impressive skyline but failed to mitigate the disaster on the ground: early in the 1960s, 9.5 acres of living, breathing, historic city right next to Copley Square was torn up to form a sunken tangle of railroad tracks and turnpike ramps. The gash also divided the Back Bay and South End neighborhoods...
...make room for one of four pipelines that converge near Pomary, an enormous gash has been cut through the forest east of the river. In the middle of the Volga a powerful dredge scoops up hundreds of tons of sand, digging the trench in which the pipeline will be laid. On the river's western bank, the completed pipeline juts up from the water and disappears into a steep, rocky ridge. Unperturbed by tl frenetic activity, fishermen walk along the pipe that has not yet been laid and cast their nets into the Volga...
Below decks the crash and the quick list of Andrea Doria lifted sleepers out of bed and hurled them around cabins, to be sprayed by flying porthole glass. Passengers an stairways were jerked off and slapped to the deck. Smoke drifted back from the long (40 ft.) gash along the ship's starboard. Oil and water sloshed along the corridors. Over the ship's loudspeaker came Italian commands to remain calm, but they were only half heard or not understood...
...people go to the Hamptons") says it is a world apart from Riker's Island. "Over there it's a diseased cesspool," says McMurray. "Am I right or wrong," he yells to a dozen fellow diggers. "Right!" they holler, then go back to shoveling dirt into the gash that holds the ten coffins that Charlie Garcia has placed in their charge. "It's one germ after another [at Riker's Island]. If you don't have anything wrong with you going in, you will coming...