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...Akana and his team headed straight into what Akana calls the pit at ground zero, a gigantic crater of mangled steel beams that looked like curly fries and pretzels. He was stationed in a very dangerous area near 1 Liberty Plaza, a building that was thought to be on the verge of collapsing. Officials would yell at everyone to evacuate, and there would be stampedes to get out. Ive never been so scared in my life, Akana says. In the back of my head, I knew I was probably in a really risky position. But you just dont think about...
Gornick’s contention that for personal nonfiction to work, the narrator must adopt a persona that must not fall “into the pit of confessionalism or therapy on the page or naked self-absorption,” is an accurate and important observation. By creating a narrator separate from herself, the writer is able to transform the uniquely personal into something that can be felt and understood by others. The narrator becomes the link between writer and reader, allowing the latter to feel the truths that the writer tries to express through the story, without...
Visitors leave Bingham Canyon awestruck at the historic feat of engineering that dug such a deep pit. Environmentalists may see only the hole that humanity has dug for itself. Rio Tinto hopes that future generations will look west from their Sunrise homes and see the remnants of an old, strategically vital industry reshaped by new sensibilities and needs...
Kennecott Utah Copper, the mine's operator since 1903 and owner of some 40,000 developable acres in the western valley, has passed its golden age, when the pit was bottomless and facilities could pump and dump waste with abandon. Times have changed. A pound of copper sells for about half what it did five years ago, and cleaning up the environment absorbs many of the resulting pennies. So K.U.C. was pleased to stumble onto an asset that doesn't appear on the balance sheet of its corporate parent, Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto: its own backyard. There...
...particular, several of his friends remembered how Hennessy would at times bring a blender into the theater pit and during periods of loud music in the show would use it to make mixed drinks for members of the orchestra...