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...have raised some farmers above the subsistence level for the first time in their lives. In Haiti, where malnutrition is as common as sunshine, the peasants scratch out a hardscrabble living raising coffee in tiny backyard jardins, drying the beans on the ground in front of their thatch-roofed mud houses and selling to journeyman brokers. Now that el Exigente will buy anything he can find, they are getting as much as $1.25 per Ib.-unheard-of riches for these people. In Guatemala, Indian laborers who usually are taken from their mountain homes to coffee plantations in open trucks designed...
...overhead, the gas and oil rigs look like pieces of some monster Erector Set. Giant beams crisscross to form towers rising 23 stories above the waves. In the swampy bayous near the coast, production and drilling equipment stands in tight clusters at the older drilling sites. But as the mud-brown waters turn to green and finally blue, the rigs thin out; the most remote are exploring for gas 110 miles off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana. Some offshore rigs are pushing their steel drilling bits down through 1,800 ft. of water and then through...
Life for the roughly 60 men aboard each drilling rig is a strict routine of twelve hours on duty and twelve off during seven days at sea. The center of the rig's activities is the mud-slicked drill floor, where half a dozen roughnecks struggle day and night with heavy chains and power-driven winches to shove 90-ft.-long pieces of drill pipe into the narrow hole. During the twelve hours off, the roustabouts spend most of their time sleeping, although they can also fish for baby sharks and sand trout or watch the latest porno movie...
Brock suddenly becomes the indispensable man in the middle. Satan needs the Limbo Line to transport cannon across the bottomless mud of the gluttons' Third Circle. The archangel Michael, ready to wage another Miltonic war against Satan, needs the railroad to carry his chariot of fire across the same sea of mud...
...billing of Burger the epitome of egalitarianism, a felonious breach of etiquette or a simple gaffe? Most probably a gaffe, and as such it typified the confusion of what may turn out to be the most chaotic Inaugural since Andy Jackson's admirers tracked mud all over the White House in a frenzy to shake his hand...