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...snatchers such as Palamarchuk claim that the center of Philadelphia's black market is Passyunk Avenue, in the southwestern part of the city. Here lies a sprawling shantytown of 70 salvage yards, and journalists are about as welcome as the rusty mud after a heavy rain. "Is that your car?" barks the manager of one junkyard. "Leave it there a couple of hours, and see what ! happens to it." His sidekick, an unfriendly German shepherd, growls in agreement...
...five to seven members, archaeologists guess) probably arose before dawn to a breakfast of hot chocolate -- or, if they weren't rich enough, a thick, hot corn drink called atole -- and tortillas or tamales. The house was usually a one-room hut built of interwoven poles covered with dried mud. Meals of corn, squash and beans, supplemented with the occasional turkey or rabbit, were probably eaten...
...wanted to see him leave," he said of Letterman. "But the reality is . . . he walked out of our marriage." And so NBC picks a fight with flush CBS over comic ideas that were hackneyed when Letterman started using them; call it banalimony. That surely describes the high-level mud wrestling over De Forest's Melman. "If you have an actor who's a bumbler," asks Manhattan attorney Stanley Rothenberg, "do you prevent him from earning his living after this series is over? Do you say he can't go and bumble elsewhere...
Tutundzic, 69, is standing in the mud on the banks of the Miljacka River, where scores of people have come to collect water. She is crying. Clad in a black skirt and green woolen jacket, with her hair tied back with a ribbon, she has dressed as if she might be going to lunch with friends. To get there she walked along the airport road dubbed Snipers' Alley, and she does not flinch at the crack of rifle fire and the occasional thud of exploding shells. "I have seven people at home, and my friend was supposed to meet...
...lumber, three ice chests and four plastic garbage cans he has plucked from the waters around his house and placed on his roof -- still a foot above the waterline. In some areas, agricultural chemicals and human and animal wastes will be mixed with the debris. And of course, mud -- tons and tons and tons of mud...