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...Painted advertisements for appliances and liquor cover one wall, and theatre posters line the fence between the two buildings. An English-Italian bilingual sign announces a grocery store below the other building. A black man stands in front of the theatre posters with a shovel and a white man sits beside him, while a woman and child look out a top-floor balcony...
...having it. In that case, you put one teaspoonful of leaves into the pot for each person drinking from it, and then added another teaspoonful "for the pot." The resulting brew would put hair on your chest; the only way to make tea that strong drinkable was to shovel so much sugar into it that it became a sort of chemistry experiment, testing the absorptive capacity of a cupful of water. Oh, and - together with the iced and sticky buns - sweet tea also led to (how can we put this nicely?) those distinctive dental challenges that identify baby-boom Brits...
Stephen King’s latest thriller has perhaps the most dreadfully dull cover ever conceived for a novel of his. The front is plain red with a shovel-shaped cutout on the front. Remove the dust jacket and you’ll find an overly colorful illustration of exotic, chaotically-growing flowers and weeds. According to the summary in the inner flap, the picture apparently depicts Boo’ya Moon, “a place that both terrified and healed him.” The “him” refers to the titular character?...
...into a camouflage-painted Blizzard went a GPS navigation system, two-way radio, radar, spaces for food, water, fuel and a nuclear-biological-chemical air filter ("You can pressurize the cabin and breathe through that"), ultra-long-life batteries, and, on the sides, a pick, shovel, and mats for bogged wheels. Three Panic Trucks have been built and five are in the works, says Watson, who loves the passion with which people embrace his creations: "They'll say, 'Oh, I got a chip on my bonnet.' And I'll say, 'Well, it's only a car.' And they...
...colossal project for himself. His trip marked the first time a U.S. President left the country while in office. To see conditions at their worst, he went at the height of the rainy season. While touring, he delighted workers by leaping aboard a 95-ton Bucyrus steam shovel and grilling the operator about how it worked. The operator seized the moment to ask for overtime...