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...casket into the last car where other soldiers, sailors and marines would stand guard over it. The band played on & on; the drums echoed hollowly in the hot valley. Leaning on [an aide's] arm ... she steadily went aboard. The train moved slowly out of Warm Springs. At Atlanta, steel-helmeted soldiers lined the station platform, crowds filled windows overlooking the smoky terminal ... The train rumbled on, past fields where farmers tied their mules and stood at the fences with their hats off-into Greenville, South Carolina, where thousands packed the station area-into Charlotte, North Carolina ... where she heard...
...here is really great, but they’re working like hell to not be “here” anymore. This hopelessness leaves me feeling uncomfortable, because for Lebanese people my country’s streets are paved with gold, but its gates are reinforced with steel...
...late 2002, Melbourne's Federation Square didn't so much give birth to a new art gallery and moving-image museum as spit them out from a computer. A labyrinth of splintered steel, sandstone and glass, with more detours than a PlayStation game, for many the $A450-million complex represented everything they disliked about contemporary culture: an amorphous mass of postmodernism, with no discernable beginning or end. Here was a building that seemed to suffer from eternal attention deficit disorder...
...available energy was funneled to foreign and joint-venture firms to keep their assembly lines humming. The electricity crunch hit China's fastest-developing eastern and southern regions the hardest, as overtaxed power plants simply couldn't keep up with the pressure from energy-intensive industries such as steel and cement. As a result, a province like Zhejiang saw its 2003 economic growth rate come in 1% lower than expected...
...fixed at all," griped Alain Bazot, UFC's president. Not as fixed as Sarkozy's political ambitions. - By Peter Gumbel Hitting The Brakes China 's efforts to slow its rapid industrial growth are on track: new car sales slid 19% in May from a month earlier; the country's steel imports fell by more than 30% year on year last month; and imports of iron ore dropped by 600,000 tons over the same period...