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...apartment block's sewage system through faulty plumbing. Because the virus seems to survive longer in organic matter than in the open air, investigators theorize that rats, cockroaches and other vermin may have come into contact with the sewage and spread the virus by traveling up the vertical shaft that runs along the side of Block E, the high-rise most affected by SARS. The vermin could have contaminated common objects in the block, which could have then infected residents. Investigators are also exploring the possibility that the virus could be spread by household pets, either through infection...
DIED. LYNNE THIGPEN, 54, Tony-winning actress and co-star, as a statistics clerk assisting a Washington police chief, of the CBS drama The District; of unknown causes; in Los Angeles. In addition to playing roles in the films Tootsie and Shaft, she won a Tony in 1997 for her portrayal of a black Jewish feminist in Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter...
...pair of joysticks that he manipulated through his heavy work gloves. The scoop tram looked like a dump truck with the cab lopped off. On solid-rubber tires 5 ft. high, it carried freshly mined ore in soccer-ball-size chunks to the "grizzly," the big grated dumping shaft, where the rocks begin their journey to the mill...
...where Powder was stationed on the day of our visit. To start mining a new section of ore, a drill is used to dig a 15-in. pilot hole from the upper level to the lower one. Once the drill bit punches through the ceiling of the lower horizontal shaft, the drill is removed and a 10-ton, 10-ft.-wide reamer with tungsten-carbide teeth is attached. At the upper level, a raisebore machine pulls the rotating reamer slowly upward, carving out a much bigger hole. As the reamer climbs, ore tumbles down the shaft to the lower level...
Once again American Indians are getting the shaft. This land was theirs from the start. Now casino owners are making money off them. Indian children go hungry while the backers walk around in silk suits. Where is the justice, and when will Indians get what's due them financially? SOPHIE FINNEGAN Murrell's Inlet...