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...aerosol paint can is science's contribution to the ancient art of public defacement, and the vacant-minded or vicious are taking to it in ever-increasing numbers-gleefully spraying their names, initials, class numerals and favorite biological functions over national monuments and natural wonders. The taxpayers' bill for cleaning up after them is getting higher all the time...
...report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea for the U.S. to become independent of foreign oil. But each Senator spoke only to a nearly empty chamber. Their colleagues dozed on cots in darkened conference rooms or in their otherwise vacant offices. This was the Senate's first all-night filibuster since 1978, an effort to prevent the registration of some 4 million 19-and 20-year-old youths for possible future drafting...
...black voices are angry. "I go out there and see these houses all boarded up. I see some gutted. I see vacant lots and weeds," says Congressman Louis Stokes of Cleveland. "I see these guys standing around doing nothing. I feel so helpless, so hopeless. We're passing from one generation to another a group of people who are hopelessly locked into a permanent underclass...
...ahead, aghast, among sight soon to be outdone." Shedding light on the bizarre truth of our inner, irrational metaphors, she presents this vision of a city unnaturally demolished to expose the contours of the earth, leaving only "a single monument, defabricated girders of an abolished dome, presiding like a vacant cranium or a hollowing out of the great globe itself: Saint Peter's in some eternal city of nightmare...
Alewife, in the northwestern end of Cambridge, is, in sports, and industrial ghetto, 350-odd acres of cracking pavement, dead end streets and decaying factories. On the other side of the city, where Simplex Wire and Cable once dominated the Cambridgeport neighborhood, trash collects in vacant lots where giant pools of steel were stored. Crumbling, vacant brick warehouses stand silent; barbed wire fences guard nothing...