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...worst weather on Earth. In summer the ground turns mushy, and the huge trucks bog down. "It's like working in peanut butter," says a Syncruder. In the winter, when temperatures can drop to -40°F, the oil sand is so hard it grinds up the shovels' steel teeth as if they were plastic combs. It's not unusual to replace the teeth after a single 12-hour shift. Suncorp, another oil-sands company, has an $8 million annual budget just for that...
...thing in college. I was in Texas, and that was a good job. I could get paid a lot of money to do grunt work with a hard hat and steel-toe boots. It's good to not be doing what everyone thinks you should be doing. Or it worked for me, anyway...
...thousand inmates whoop and whistle ... The prison whistle shrieks. Clang! go the steel cellblock doors. This is Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. The performance, which took place last January, resulted in one of the most original and compelling pop albums of the year. Country singer Cash ... is a big favorite in the penitentiary circuit. 'We bring the prisoners a ray of sunshine in their dungeon,' he says, 'and they're not ashamed to respond' ... Cash ... sings with granite conviction and mordant wit about sadness, pain, loneliness and hard luck ... The Folsom album was made when Cash, after six years...
...find Berlin's most unusual art exhibition, jump off the tram at Alexanderplatz in the center of Berlin and duck down a flight of broad concrete stairs into the Underground station. Take a quick right, stop at a yellow, graffiti-covered steel door. Knock. Nina and Torsten Römer, curators of Project Paradise, open the door and lead the way deeper into the earth along a narrow concrete passageway to a Nazi-era bunker. During World War II, Berlin's huddled masses sheltered here as Allied bombs flattened their city. Until Nov. 2, you're more likely to bump...
Bermudez is a photography-based installation artist and many of her pieces make use of old photographs transferred to glass, cloth or steel. However, these photographs are rarely perfectly visible or in good condition; they are often purposely deteriorating or simply difficult to see. They represent vanishing memories, most of them images from Bermudez’s childhood, including several photos of herself and her family. Viewers have to manipulate a set of lamps made available to them in order to reflect the images from the glass etchings onto the wall; only by doing this will they be able...