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Farther up, past buried land mines and anti-tank posts of corroding concrete, up in a pillbox covered with netting and sod, halfway up the cliff, young Dr. Bleagh and his nurse Ivy are relaxing after a difficult lobotomy. His scrubbed and routinized fingers dart beneath her suspender straps, pull outward, release in a sudden great smack and ho-ho-ho from Bleagh as she jumps and laughs too, trying not too hard to squirm away. They lie on a bed of faded old nautical charts, maintenance manuals, burst sandbags and spilled sand, burned matchsticks, and unraveled corktips from cigarettes...
...reason is coal. Beneath the prairie sod of Montana and the neighboring areas of Wyoming and North Dakota lie an estimated 1.3 trillion tons of coal and lignite-40% of the U.S.'s reserves, enough to power American industry and heat American homes for decades. Moreover, since the Western coal contains little sulfur or sodium, it will produce relatively little air pollution when it is burned. This is especially important in cities with strict air-quality laws at a time when other clean fuels (natural gas and oil with low sulfur content) are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. Best...
...traction, they need to be released from the fixed stance when they are hit by a block or tackled. So he designed shoes with a cleat plate that rotates in the middle of the sole. The player can pivot on the plate while the cleats remain implanted in the sod. Result: many fewer torn ligaments. Trade named Swivler by Wolverine Products, the shoes come in styles for football, soccer, rugby, lacrosse and baseball...
...walls brought the outdoors in and made views a part of ownership. His sure mastery of native materials-fieldstone and wood-gives the houses a feeling of security and protection. Architectural students still marvel at the details, studying how Breuer made the houses grow so naturally out of the sod, how he cantilevered staircases and, above all, how he met the needs of occupants. In some H-shaped houses, he separated the daytime areas-kitchen, dining and living rooms-from bedrooms by a central hall. In his rectangular "long" houses, a central kitchen and bathrooms divide living from sleeping quarters...
...grid, the b-ball court and the diamond by the some pitiable score, and hardened by a year of the fickle cruskies which plague the world's most powerful University, decided not to show. The reason: A mild drizzle, brought on by Hurricane Anne, had dampened the sod of Soldiers Field...