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Although both the location and the setting were perfect for Conlon and Plumb's Paris apartment, they faced some maintenance problems. Horrified when the hot-water heater shot flames and made booming sounds, they shut it off and boiled water on the stove for sponge baths for three days until French repairmen appeared. "The French have a different sense of urgency," Conlon says dryly. That hasn't deterred the couple from planning a regular sabbatical, however. Who can resist playing English cottager, Parisian apartment dweller or Tuscan farmhouse owner--if only for a short while...
...piece of prose, Franzen's ranking would be through the roof. He puts up Updikean numbers. His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail." A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth." The California towhee, one of his favorite birds, is like "a friend whose energy and optimism had escaped the confines of a single body to animate roadsides and backyards across thousands of square miles...
They were right. In the farmhouse near Corleone, Provenzano stayed tucked safely inside while a shepherd served as cover, tending a flock and making cheese. After the arrest, police found a rudimentary bathroom, a double bed, an electric heater and a nightstand. On a table, there were two typewriters and several Bibles with underlined passages, as well as some 100 pizzini, which investigators hope will lead to further arrests. Two days after Provenzano's capture, the shack where he had slept and worked was sealed off as police conducted forensic studies. But a walk through the adjoining barn and makeshift...
...Plug leaks and make sure you have adequate insulation so that you can use less heat or air-conditioning. Caulking and weather-stripping doors and windows can slash CO2 emissions by 1,700 lbs. per year. If your water heater is more than five years old, wrapping it in an insulating jacket will save 1,000 lbs. of CO2 emissions annually. (Keeping its thermostat at 120?F or less will save another...
...camp, and 1 is killed when bombs explode near the Grand Mosque JULY 1990 1,426 pilgrims are crushed or asphyxiated in a tunnel at Mina MAY 1994 270 pilgrims die in a stampede at the "stoning of the devil" APRIL 1997 A fire caused by a gas heater at a Mina camp kills 343 APRIL 1998 A stampede during the stoning ritual - 118 dead Further deadly crushes en route to the stoning: MARCH 2001 35 dead FEBRUARY 2003 14 dead FEBRUARY 2004 251 dead JANUARY 2005 3 dead JANUARY 5, 2006 76 Hajj pilgrims die when a hotel...