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...obnoxious Aussies. And more was to come. Putting Australia in to chase a target of 373 on the final day, India bowled out Australia for 212, becoming only the third test team in history to win a match after having been forced to follow on. Where Laxman had put steel into the spine of the Indian batting, a lanky young Sikh off-spinner, Harbajan Singh, claimed the honors with the ball - having dispatched seven Australians in the first innings, he added another six scalps in the second...
...allows the import of any beef from countries such as Botswana, Brazil and Argentina, where foot-and-mouth is endemic. Says Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, an organic farming lobbying group: "The globalization of agriculture is presumed to be a good thing, treating food commodities like processed steel and shipping it around the globe. We don't want that anymore...
...that's not an isolated instance. "The classic example is the downsizing of the steel industry," says Roy Adams, a professor of industrial relations at Canada's McMaster University who has long championed works councils in North America. "Over here, we went through terrible times in steel, but in Germany they had the same reorganization amid relative calm, mostly because the works councils were able to navigate through the nitty-gritty of how to humanely lay people...
...live. But there wasn't a single tree for blocks around. In fact, when we moved in there wasn't even any grass. I remember my father out in front, in the dirt patch meant to be a yard, unloading sod and pressing it down with a huge steel sod-roller. To me it was like living in a desert. Walking home from school, sitting on a curb playing marbles, riding my bike - there was never a break from the sun. It felt like Arizona, not Ohio...
...honest, the style of Kong is crude; the digital techniques of today are so much more sophisticated than the gross, mechanical movement of the steel-armatured puppets. The principal emotional modes are comedic, bathetic or scary. And "Kong" isn't scary, at least not to a modern audience, and the emotional moments are far too sentimental for modern tastes. Yet it works! Somehow, like Karloff with his brilliant miming in the James Whale Frankenstein pictures, O'Brien makes Kong into something not just alive, but worthy of our sympathy...