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...spelunking in a dark place. There are obstacles all around you as you try to make your way through the maze of foot-wide "tunnels" made precarious by the objects that could easily fall on your head and bury you in a pile of textbooks, lamps and "misc. school supplies...
...around the Washington Monument, increased airport security and decreased access to certain offices and revered sites. Surely this barricading offers some protection, But something will be lost when third-graders go home and describe a Washington Monument not as a serene pinnacle to American glory but as a virtual maze of uniforms and restrictions, recalling that it was surrounded not by flags but by concrete...
...World Cup began -- but any feelings of relief in the French capital were dampened by clashes between drunken fans and overzealous police on the Champs Elysées. During what was supposed to be a celebration of the global tournament, security-minded gendarmes pushed the crowd behind a maze of barriers. Several hundred local supporters started throwing bottles, and riot troops responded with tear gas. With 34 injured and 50 arrested, it was a scene that made the City of Lights look more like Jakarta...
...getting input and information. Most people have to behave like detectives in order to sift out the useful information from the useless. Similarly, the world of noir is a world of detectives, a world where mere information cannot help, where the world is a labyrinth and the city a maze. In increasingly urban, increasingly over-loaded lives, noir reflects the way that individuals are beginning to define themselves in an information culture...
Ever since, waters from the surrounding bedrock and a maze of old mine tunnels and shafts have been rushing in and reacting with the ores to form a toxic soup that rises steadily, year after year, like water in a vast bathtub. It's the Berkeley Pit, and it's a man-made wonder of horrific proportions--an oval lake of acidic mining residues so deep that it could swallow an 80-story skyscraper...