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...kilns are mounded, cavelike structures of concrete, lighted by air holes in the curved roofs. There is a door at either end, and Ray backed his truck in one. Inside the kiln, soot coated the walls. It was damp and smelled of wet chimney. Ray worked fast, standing on the truck bed, stacking his load on a base left by another woodcutter, filling the kiln up to the ceiling 5 ft. above his head. His safety depends on how well the previous woodcutter stacked his load. Once, warned by a slight noise, he had just enough time to jump away...
This fall, the Law School Forum was forced to relocate a speech by mayor of Philadelphia Wilson Goode after soot-covered Cambridge youths rolled on the ground and--in a non-too-subtle protest of Goode's bombing of a radical group's headquarters--called the mayor a Nazi murderer...
...works at all, he is lucky to earn $20 a week. Chavez plans to stay in Mexico City, but he knows that doing so is a risk to his family's health. Pollution is so bad in Mexico City (pop. 18 million) that birds regularly drop dead from the soot-filled sky. Last year the city endured several thermal inversions in which dense, low-lying clouds of smog literally forced residents of the capital to choke on the waste produced by the city's 3 million cars and 100,000 factories. Warns Economist Rogelio Ramirez de la O: "If there...
...door to room 605 and saw that a couch was burning. Levesque said they used up six fire extinguishers to put out the fire. As they prepared to leave, the door slammed shut and the window exploded from the intense heat. The two men managed to escape through the soot-filled hallways as police arrived...
...those walking potential victims of cancer," Michael Lambert, who said he lives 1200 feet from the plant, told the court. Lambert then produced four test tubes of acid soot from his jacket pocket as an illustration of the potential threat from the power plant...