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...waded out into water that almost perfectly matched my body temperature and was remarkably clear for the Mississippi River-catching Gulf Coast. My father reminded me to pop the rod tip, making the lure look less like lifeless rubber and more like food, something a fellow beachgoer must have known as he yanked a four-foot hammerhead shark out of the water...
...journalists were tortured by beatings with fists and rubber batons to the head, body and feet and by application of electric shocks all over the body, said Sherman Carroll, director of public affairs with the Medical Foundation for the Care and Treatment of Victims of Torture in London. They were also submitted to the "submarine," meaning their heads were "wrapped in plastic bags and then submerged in water until they started suffocating," he said...
...flung parts of the world to polish off bottles of Asti Spumante, the approaching millennium has also served as inspiration for goofy futurism, much of which has been in evidence on the runways. When designers unveiled their fall '99 collections earlier this year, many churned out garments of rubber and plastic in silhouettes that seemed bound for spaceships. The clothes had a circa 1966 sci-fi writer's vision of the year...
...Gilbo, 21, may have the hottest job on Capitol Hill. Each workday he puts on two suits, one over the other, both made of materials that seal out dust but trap heat. Then he wraps his wrists and ankles, pulls a rubber respirator over his head and climbs more than 200 ft. into the narrow space between the Capitol's inner and outer domes. Gilbo, who lives in Georgetown, Mass., is part of a 10-man crew removing poisonous lead paint from cast-iron walls in temperatures that regularly soar above 100[degrees]F. "It's a pretty hostile environment...
...upside down in a kayak in San Francisco Bay, fighting panic. I'm not sure I can hold my breath much longer. I yank away at the tab that attaches a rubber spray skirt--and me--to the two-person boat, the bottom of whose hull is bobbing on the surface...