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...silence, his secret. A woman on a farm down the road called him "the Unabomber." The oldest woman in the valley, a woman in her eighties, said he had lived in the cinderblock house for forty years, on a shaggy stretch of uninhabited road beside the old gravel pit, which was filled in and covered up a year or two ago and already has vanished undetectably beneath a carpet of new pasture grass...
WATCH THE WALLS Gravel and pieces of worn tire blow to the outside of corners, often causing loss of control...
Kamen is the founder of DEKA Research of Manchester, N.H. and has won numerous prizes and awards for his mechanical contributions to medical science. He invented the portable insulin pump and a wheelchair that can negotiate stairs, sand and gravel...
...smoking guns, maybe, but there have been newsmaking incidents, like that little fund raiser held by the sand-and-gravel industry a few years ago for a state-senate committee chairman the day before he was to consider a bill helpful to the industry. (He denies being swayed.) And earlier this year, senate majority leader Chellie Pingree received a letter from a Pfizer Corp. lobbyist saying the firm would no longer contribute to state Democrats after she and the house speaker pushed the prescription-drug bill...
...last year or two, the town roads department has been experimenting with compounds, a gravel-and-clay surface, easier than dirt to plow and maintain - but not yet asphalt. That seemed a good compromise; the baby powder still fills...