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...Colombia have used paramilitary groups in the country to kill at least eight union leaders since 1989. In India, different groups of activists in rural communities have accused Coke of depleting groundwater in drought regions and polluting soil and groundwater in these areas, as well as distributing heavy-metal laced bio-solids to farmers in the area. Also, they claimed that Coke did not install adequate systems to filter pesticides out of the groundwater used to manufacture Coca-Cola products.In response to these allegations, the University of Michigan Dispute Review Board (DRB), which enforces Michigan’s Vendor Compliance...
...Unable to immediately identify the source, I pondered the possibilities—was someone dragging a desk around? Was the room above me playing Dance Dance Revolution? Had the boiler exploded? I threw open my curtains to reveal the source of my discomfort—a 25-foot-long metal piston that was being dropped again and again to the ground, smashing and stirring up dirt as part of the ongoing Grant/Cowperthwaite construction project. What the Harvard construction website euphemistically describes as “ongoing digging and concrete operations” was creating a noise loud enough to wake...
These days, the timer makes the actual bell move, which causes the clapper inside to swing as well. A metal piece on the chain holding the bell kicks the bell back in the other direction at exactly the right time. The chimes will usually last longer than the timer is set for, because the heavy bell takes some time to stop moving...
...University holidays and on memorial days, the church’s bell is still hand-rung by Campbell, who has become an expert over the past 10 years at climbing through the church’s catwalk on narrow beams to reach steep metal staircases and cluttered platforms with large windows. On the highest platform, he climbs a thin metal ladder that finally brings him up to a door that opens onto to a small space high above the Yard...
Because it is easy to lose track of how many times he needs to ring the bell, Campbell will often use a piece of metal or an old screw and mark the inside of the bell with small scratch lines in a tally...