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...tower is built directly on an ancient riverbed of soft, sandy soil, and the foundation is shallow for a structure that weighs 32 million lbs. (14,500 metric tons...
MAKING THE TOWER LEAN BACK In recent decades, forces pulling the tower askew began to compound each other. Soil continued to give way underneath, while stress increased on the stones on the downward side at the base of the second level. A panel studied several ideas before selecting a low-tech but effective solution...
...Hooker was born in 1917 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, a town where the soil was richer than many of the residents. He came from sharecropping folk, the kind that worked hard and prayed harder - his father was also a minister. Hooker's parents split up when he was young and his mother moved in with William Moore, who became Hooker's stepfather. God's agents had their chance, and now it was time for the Devil's music. Moore taught the young sharecropper's son how to do something else with his hands other than harvest crops - he taught...
...there, Harvard must face the reality outside Clarkâs window: 48 acres of land, some tied up in sixty year leases, split by a railway branch with permanent rights-of-way, on soil that will require environmental cleanup after a century of industrial...
...drinking laws. Ostensibly Jenna could join ROTC - okay, it would probably be the National Guard - and then be shipped off to fight a UN-sponsored war. When she?s finished fighting for the day, can she have a beer? Sure, if she?s overseas. But not on U.S. soil. It?s an old argument, but it still resonates, once you get over the deep unlikelihood of the idea of Jenna Bush joining the military...