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...family," as she puts it, leaving her son behind. "I realized that if I were ever going to get him out I had to get out myself." In the next two years, she got psychiatric help, moved to Peekskill, N.Y., where she bought a house, set up another lamp-making studio, enrolled at Empire State College, joined the community ambulance corps, and once even sent the impoverished family $75,000 to keep up mortgage payments...
...elevator to the mine, far below the surface. There they file into a tiny rail car for the ride to the mine face, the wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat of fire; if it goes...
...standard permanent. After the hair has been set, the stylist applies the lotion-sometimes uniformly, often just on some parts of the head, leaving the remainder of the hair straight for an unusual textured effect. Once this is done, the hair is partially dried under a heat lamp in a scant 20 minutes, then blown fully...
LIGHTING. Cutting the lighting levels in nonresidential buildings to no more than is needed could save as much as 700,000 bbl. a day. For example, removing one lamp from three-bulb fluorescent fixtures has already reduced energy use significantly in many federal buildings...
...teams organize themselves as they wish and work at the speed they choose. While a worker on a conventional assembly line might spend his entire shift mounting one license-plate lamp after another, every member of a Kalmar work team may work at one time or another on all parts of the electrical system-from taillights to turn signals, head lamps, horn, fuse box and part of the electronically controlled fuel-injection system. The only requirement is that every team meet its production goal for a shift. As long as cars roll out on schedule, workers are free to take...