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Ranchers and other neighbors complained about the project in the early '70s, when some of Soleri's liberated female workers decided to toil away barebreasted, and "every trucker on Interstate 17 found some reason to stop at Arcosanti." Stories about drugs and skinny-dipping in nearby Lynx Lake upset the many religious fundamentalists in a state where billboards proclaim that "the wages of sin is death...
Workers in the old-line "sweat and toil" industries, which once symbolized America's economic might, are now suffering the worst unemployment. Stretching across the nation's manufacturing heartland, from the foothills of the Alleghenies, west to the Mississippi River and north to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, stands an idle army of the jobless...
...toil of all that...
...summer athletes also merit at least a modicum of recognition for years of anonymous toil. Deprived--some would say robbed--of a chance to strut their stuff on the world's stage, tributes are even more in order. Since the athletes have become pawns among the players of international politics--particularly ironic when you consider the government's total failure to support amateur sport--this summer's events may mark the death of what grains of incentive remain for American amateur athletes. Now that we have faced the fact that the Olympics will not be with us this summer...
...harsh; some economic crimes, such as major embezzlement of state property, can even bring death. Judges generally do not hand down the long prison hitches that U.S. courts often mete out in anticipation of early parole, but Soviet convicts are more likely to serve full terms. And they toil hard, both in the prisons where repeat offenders or dangerous criminals are kept and in the work camps housing most of the convict population of about 2 million...