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...worst problem, however, remains aesthetics. Omya officials claim that the quarry's surface would be no larger than 33 of the 400 acres on the Danby site, where core samples have assured them there is good marble to be found. Locals are worried about mine creep, however, with the pit growing wider as markets for marble grow bigger. Reddy (who has some environmental expertise, having served on a desert-land-use panel to which he was appointed by former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt) believes there are ways to make the mine in Danby less of an eyesore. Building grassy berms...
Operating like a NASCAR pit crew, Southwest's mechanics pride themselves on changing airplane tires faster than their counterparts at other airlines. And mechanics at Southwest don't use the standard $500 tool to remove the magnetic device that detects metal chips in engine oil, as other mechanics do; they simply and quickly use their hand to pop it out. "Those tools are a waste," says a mechanic...
...within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned as a bottomless pit. An attempt at restructuring in 1982-83 brought some respite, but in the rapidly changing world of commercial airlines, the carrier was too small, its costs too high. Sabena needed a partner to survive. The fateful deal with Swissair was signed in May 1995, after Sabena's attempts to ally itself...
...walls to add volume and connect it to the needs of the present. Says Veronica, a garden writer and renovation addict: "When you move into a house, you're moving into the lifestyle of that era. If it's a 1970s house, you will have to suffer the conversation pit. Our 1930s house was small. People's needs, desires and expectations were completely different than they...
...neutralized a suspected terrorist cell." It remains to be seen whether that is true or whether local vigilance has gone overboard. Just a few weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks last year, a deputy sheriff in Skamania County, Wash., responded to a complaint about gunshots at a rural gravel pit. Six men in Muslim caps were testing out an arsenal of weaponry, including an assault rifle and semiautomatic pistols. The deputy took their names. A month later, when one was arrested for carrying illegal weapons, the officer recognized him and called the fbi. Four of the others would later...