Word: parkes
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SEVEN HUNDRED FEET BELOW the beauty of Central Park, "sandhogs" toil in darkness and cold, hammering through rock and laying the foundation for famous skyscrapers and sewer lines. Seven hundred feet below the lights of Time Square, the darker side of the New York City underworld surfaces in Thomas Kelly's first novel, Payback, a look into the opulent 80s construction business that thrived on Reaganomics and mob violence. Kelly, who worked for ten years as a sandhog before graduating from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, brings his own underground expertise to a sordid story of hard men, hard...
...least six months. The scientists were tipped off to the find by Vikas Amte, a local doctor. Regardless of whether the eggs hold the answer or not, Amte said the area where they were found should be cordoned off to protect it. "It should be converted in a Jurassic Park...
...Timothy McVeigh involved with bank robbers indicted last week in Philadelphia? Was the bombing of Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta plotted in the Northwest? Last week two of the country's most infamous bombings were tenuously linked to crimes allegedly wrought by white supremacists. The connections, mostly speculative, have intrigued investigators and provided conspiracy theorists with much to ponder...
...bombed and the same bank robbed again. Last week stories in the Spokesman-Review alleged that the Priesthood may have been involved in the Olympic bombing last July 27. An unnamed Atlanta architect claimed that an hour before the blast, he saw Spokane suspect Robert Berry near Centennial Olympic Park, which was part of the AT&T Global Village at the Games. Berry's co-suspect, Charles Barbee, is a former employee of AT&T who told the Spokesman-Review in 1995 that the company coddles its gay and lesbian workers. The FBI reportedly has records that show someone made...
Your Winners & Losers item on new laws on the books in '97 had it backward when it criticized fee increases at some of America's national parks [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 13]. Higher entrance fees at the parks is an all-around winner for the visiting public and the parks. A week in some of America's most spectacular places still costs my family less than going to a movie. That's a good deal for us. Under the new law, the parks will keep 80% of the money they raise, using it for badly needed maintenance and preservation. That protects park...