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...walk through an alley filled with gang members," he says. "Aw, man, it was awful. That guy was unconscious after just a few feet." Hernandez doesn't shy from violence easily. In his seven-year career, he's been shot in the stomach, hit in the head with a railroad tie, had his arm broken in a fight, absorbed countless punches, and been jailed twice for auto theft -- not to mention all the unspeakable things he's done to other people. Last May he told his fellow gang members he had finally had enough. His former friends promptly jumped...
...seat arena on the Potomac Yard site in Virginia, just south of Washington, the football teams that play there may have to wear moonsuits. Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency say that after years of creosote soaking and casual dumping of chemical wastes at the onetime railroad switching station, the area is so contaminated it could qualify for Superfund environmental treatment...
...forced to spend much of the debate defending his administration over what United Left coalition leader Julio Anguita called "the interminable rosary of scandals." Last year Gonzalez's Deputy Prime Minister resigned after allegations of influence peddling involving his brother. In January another Minister was forced out after a railroad speculation scandal. Last week Gonzalez named a new head of the Bank of Spain, following media allegations linking the incumbent to an insider-trading scheme, charges he denies. "Spain does not have a worse corruption problem than surrounding countries," the beleaguered Gonzalez told parliament. "But it does have a public...
NEARLY EVERY AMERICAN INSTITUTION FROM THE big top to the Big Three found itself in a state of suspended animation last week. A strike brought most of the country's vast railroad network to a stop, idling three General Motors plants, stranding goods and produce on their way to market and even causing the cancellation of a performance by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Outside the Northeast, Amtrak passengers scrambled for rental cars and airline tickets as service that normally runs along freight lines was disrupted. The strike, however, was temporarily ended 48 hours after it began when...
Amid all this disappointment came yet another prospect for survival. CSX Corp., parent of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, took an interest in Otisca as a possible source of fuel for a pilot cogeneration plant it was planning at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. As the nation's largest transporter of coal, CSX had an interest in promoting its use and export. Engineer Mack Shelor, an executive with CSX's energy resources and logistics division, learned through some contacts that Otisca was the only firm capable of producing a coal-based liquid fuel that would meet the specifications...