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High in the Swiss Alps, near the little village of Saas-Almagell, engineers and workmen have labored for five years on the Mattmark dam. To visitors, the site of the work camp looked dangerous, for above it rose a sheer mountain wall, topped by the icy lip of the six-mile-long Allalin glacier. But the workmen on the dam were assured it was by no means as menacing as it looked...
...late afternoon sun glistened on the bright yellow barracks, repair shops and tool sheds. There was a constant roar from bulldozers and heavy-duty trucks churning up the slate-grey earth as they carried dirt and rocks to the growing wall. Roosma, 25, had reason for satisfaction: the Mattmark project would be completed by October, and its turbines were already generating electricity. He had got on well with his Swiss employers and with the hundreds of workers on the project-mostly Italian...
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