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...enormous success. By the hundreds of thousands, workmen and their families poured out of the sweaty city to this marvel of a beach. You can still see it today. True, gone are the legions of sailor-suited college students picking up trash. Gone too, in this age of tort, the archery range and roller rink. But the rest is there, a grand beach park for yet another generation of working-class New Yorkers, with Hispanics and blacks now joining the original beach population of white ethnics...
...first the German workmen thought they had found the remains of an extinct cave bear. Quarrying for limestone on a summer day in 1856, they had blasted open a small cave on the side of a gorge called Neanderthal (Neander Valley), near Dusseldorf, and were digging up the cave floor with pickaxes when they came upon the strange skull and sturdy bones. Setting the skeletal remains aside, they kept digging, never dreaming that their discovery would soon spark confusion, dismay and heated debate that has continued to this...
...Workmen are still wandering through the halls, rats are being chased in the basement, and bulletproof glass is being installed in David Letterman's office. Not really bulletproof; that's just the way Letterman likes to describe the protective pane designed to prevent him from accidentally tossing a baseball right through the glass, as he did once at his old NBC office, raining shards on pedestrians below. But Letterman is already gushing over his unfinished suite as if he had just moved into Windsor Castle. "Look at | this," he says, striding into the room in his workaday outfit...
...introduced in the California legislature this year to limit benefits to illegals. Mountjoy explains the strategy: the state cannot stop them from coming, because policing the borders is solely a federal responsibility. So "you have to stop the benefits of coming here: the educational benefits, the health care, the workmen's compensation." None of the bills has yet passed, though one has cleared the state senate. Two were defeated in early votes, but Mountjoy and allies vow to keep trying to push them through...
...Person in Town, she won't. the novel's hero, Sully, a 60-year-old handyman with a bad knee, will enact Good Guy Without a Grain of Sense. Sully's sidekick Rub plays Loyal Shortie with the Brain of a Beagle. The lawyer Wirf, representing Sully in a workmen's comp case, will remain Drunk & Useless...