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Back east, out of the hills of West Virginia and Virginia, endless strings of coal hoppers of the Norfolk Southern and CSX roll toward the gargantuan coastal terminals where the cars are grabbed and rolled upside down, spilling their cargoes onto belts that pour the coal into ship holds. Those trains travel on lines first plotted and built to rush the troops of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson into Civil War battles. Confederate General William Mahone, an engineering genius, felled trees so skillfully in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp before the war that today's trains still rush over...
...bullets don't pour out at such cartoonish levels. Blood does not erupt from bodies in languid slow-motion shots--a John Woo specialty...
...Great Flood of 1993, so far, has contributed to 43 deaths in eight states and devastated crops in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota and elsewhere; now the Midwest is bracing itself for the Great Bill. While cost estimates of cleaning up the deluge are starting to pour in like river water through a levee of sandbags, flood victims are wondering how the impressive damage estimates and aid packages relate to them and their losses. Complains Allen Seeburger, an uninsured farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, who lost his corn and wheat harvest to the flood: "It takes...
...issue of gays in the military will move more to the background at both Harvard and in the nation. "Many lesbians and gays are eager to get to other issues...We can fight this, but it's not the only fight," Outcalt said. "We don't want to pour sand down a hole...
Just as important, Leakey persuaded international donors to pour money into Kenya. The World Bank has promised that if the $155 million aid package to develop tourism and protect vital areas produces good results, a similar amount will follow. Leakey believes that the wildlife service can be well managed and attract financing without his leadership -- but not yet. When the plane crashed in June, many of his deputies were out of Kenya, and Leakey was afraid the conservation project would go awry if he left for England...