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...with copper prices at a nearly two-decade high, the criminals plundering anything and everything they can get their hands on are even risking their lives. Larry Dory, 45, of Dallas was killed July 14 while trying to strip live electrical wire off a utility pole. In additon to the 240 to 460 volts in air conditioners, potential dangers include the inhalation of Freon, a refrigerant illegal to release into the atmosphere. "That's a crime in and of itself with the EPA," said J. D. Points, vice president of Dalco...
...country’s many greasy spoons, or “milk bars.” Incidentally, these aren’t very milky. Rather starchy, in fact. Then again, these tubers are a national obsession, an indelible part of the Polish psyche. A particularly potato-proud Pole might serve vegetable soup with potatoes, potatoes slivered and sautéed, and a salad of creamed cauliflower and potato. All at a single Sunday dinner.The potato gained its place in the Polish pantry during “The Deluge,” a series of wars in the 17th century that...
...shakes my crotch, inspects my carabiners and tells me to try to relax. Then, in the darkness, I grab a rope and inchworm 50 feet up the almond tree she's been sleeping in for more than two weeks. To see Angelina Jolie's bed, you must have to pole vault an elephant...
...Alaskan expeditions. But these bitter elements soon melted into the month of March, bringing with it an entirely new challenge: blocking. I wound up in Currier, while my roommates—some of the closest friends I had ever had—were assigned to Dunster, the veritable opposite pole of the Harvard world. Oh, Harvard, I groaned, why couldn’t you produce a better system? As my time here continued, so did my complaints. I complained about issues of diversity, unfair “remedies” to the grade inflation that I never...
...stuffed through the backseat windows jackknifed his neck. After the turn of the century, Bingham’s grandfather had seen two wives die. Two years before Worth’s death, Bingham’s younger brother, Jonathan, died at the age at 22 while climbing an electricity pole. And in 1971, Bingham learned he had Hodgkin’s disease, the cancer that had killed his grandfather.Bingham had to fill Worth’s shoes. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning story on the family, New York Times writer Alex S. Jones wrote that, according to Bingham?...