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...trash compactor was running, and when I heard the baby crying, I turned it off," says McArthur Williams, a porter at the housing project. "If it hadn't cried, the baby would have been gone for sure." Patrol sergeant | Philip Insardi, who was summoned to the scene, said he crawled through the compactor's small metal doors and shined a flashlight onto the mount of garbage that was about to be squeezed between the machine's walls. "His feet were sticking out from under some newspapers," he said. "He wasn't making a peep when I got there." Insardi whipped...
...state's suit includes claims that these Cambridge city officials stopped all trash pickup at the school for several weeks in the summer of 1988 and later conspired to conceal their neglect. The state also claims that they barred Commonwealth Day officials from moving equipment into their building, acting at the request of school neighbors...
...SPEED OF DARKNESS. Playwright Steve Tesich brings together two former Army buddies and trash-haulage partners in this haunting Broadway production, one (Stephen Lang) now scruffy and homeless, the other (Len Cariou) now South Dakota's man of the year. Ironically, the dropout is at peace; the man who suppressed his dark secrets to fit in exists on the knife edge of anger...
...pitched battle broke out when Serbian riot police, firing rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons, charged the ralliers. Many of the protesters fought back with trash cans, paving blocks ripped from the sidewalks and even furniture from open-air cafes. As the crowd swarmed toward the Serbian parliament building, a 17-year-old boy, Branivoje Milinovic, was killed by police gunfire; more than 100 other people were injured, and a policeman later died of head wounds. The federal army, commanded by a largely Serbian officer corps, deployed tanks and armored personnel carriers at Serbia's request, in what Croatian...
...world of plastic products and disposable containers. I shower under water warmed by fossil fuels and I keep my hands warm with the wool of a sheep and the smooth skin of a once-lovely deer. I write for a newspaper that reels of 4000 copies a day. My trash can bulges with old light bulbs and paper cups, cardboard boxes, potato chip bags and out-of-date magazines...