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...laborers struggled for 20 years to construct the Pyramid of Khufu, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than girdle the earth at the equator...
...uninitiated, full-scale coal-mining is an incredible sight. Two hundred feet below where the hillside was a few years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...
...another discussion we asked our instructor why so many women continue to work past the retirement age of 55. Some of these women, visibly eligible to receive their pensions, shovel snow from the steps of public parks, others, bent over because the handles on their brooms are only half a meter long, sweep metro floors after shut-down at 1 a.m. Our instructor said that these women simply love their work. While this explanation may very well be true, a more complete answer might have also noted that in some cases pensions are so low that the elderly need...
...into Eastern Europe, I might add. Another factor is that Ronald Reagan frightens people. The rhetoric has alarmed people. The calls for huge increases in defense spending make us wonder. So have the absurd statements by Administration officials that a nuclear war can be survived, if one has a shovel and can dig a hole fast enough. It's a form of sickness not to face up to and deal with the situation. But people are beginning to emerge from that sickness and come to grips with...
...sparse-a few pictures, the footballs and a golf trophy (a long-drive contest-fourth place) hidden in a plant. "There are no heroes around this house," says Cass, who has a remedy for artistic temperament all prepared if it ever comes up. She will just hand Joe his shovel and point him to El Makata and Ghafad Asim's stalls...