Word: welder
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...welder's job is to put things together--hard, metal things that have to be melted and manipulated in order to be fused into something useful, like a pipeline, or a bridge. So maybe it was from his father, a welder in Pittsburgh, Pa., that General Michael Hayden long ago acquired the tools that made him one of the pre-eminent intelligence players in Washington. His great talent is the briefing, when he sits down in secret sessions with leaders in Congress who don't always know much about intelligence analysis, and he shows how the pieces fit together, explains...
...Tunnel, a shaft resembling a semifinished subway excavation 1,300 feet below Rainier Mesa. A narrow-gauge electric locomotive takes workers into the tunnel, which ends in a rocky cul- de-sac 1 1/2 miles away. Bare light bulbs dangle overhead, and the brilliant flare of a welder's torch flickers on the rock walls. Labyrinthine cables coil along the floor, and the tunnel reverberates with a sometimes deafening din, punctuated by shouts and horn blasts. In an eerily normal scene near ground zero, a surveyor chats on a Touch-Tone wall phone. The atmosphere is that of an underground...
DIED. FRED KOREMATSU, 86, Japanese American whose refusal to report to an internment center became a haunting symbol of civil rights repression during World War II; of a respiratory illness; in Larkspur, Calif. In May 1942, the Oakland, Calif., welder resisted pleas from compliant friends and declined to be sent to a camp. Eventually arrested, Korematsu lost a Supreme Court challenge to the policy, but in 1983 newly discovered documents showing the government had lied to the high court led to the overturning of his conviction. He later helped win reparations for internees and was awarded the Medal of Freedom...
...independence, the Wahhabis want to create an Islamic state across the Caucasus and are almost fundamentalist in their outlook. They are deeply critical of the easygoing approach of more secular Chechen Muslims - and they are feared for their ruthlessness. The leader of this Wahhabi Jamaat is Jamal, a former welder in his forties. His past alcoholism shows on his ravaged face. The apartment is hot and muggy, the plastic sheets that serve as windows rustle in the wind and a sour smell drifts from the toilet. Most of Grozny has electricity these days, but four years after Russian air strikes...
...WATCH THIS EVENT WITHOUT ADEQUATE EYE PROTECTION The sun may look dim through sunglasses, unexposed photographic film and CDs, but it can cause permanent blindness. The only safe way to look at the transit is through No. 14 welder's glasses or a Mylar filter certified for sun observation (some manufacturers have made such filters into goggles). If you aren't absolutely sure that's what you've got, you can avoid frying your retinas by making a pinhole projector, right, and watching indirectly...