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Everything here is done on a scale that would make Paul Bunyan feel right at home. The electric-powered shovels that mine the sands are several stories tall. Dozens of giant yellow earthmoving trucks lumber in and out of the mine carrying tons of freshly excavated sand. The largest ones weigh as much as 400 tons--more than 200 times the size of the average car. The trucks use huge tires that cost $55,000 each. The drivers sit so high above ground that one says piloting these behemoths is "like driving a two-story house from the second-floor...
...American machine gunner atop the mayor's office shot up the roof where the fire was originating. After a few minutes, the squad threw cans of gray and yellow smoke for cover. They carried the wounded man across the street to the mayor's office, where a medic did his best to save him, but within five minutes he was dead. The squad cleared the apartment building from which the shooter had fired but found nothing. Down the street, a 32-year-old woman had caught a bullet in the throat during the cross fire. After it was all over...
...find Berlin's most unusual art exhibition, jump off the tram at Alexanderplatz in the center of Berlin and duck down a flight of broad concrete stairs into the Underground station. Take a quick right, stop at a yellow, graffiti-covered steel door. Knock. Nina and Torsten Römer, curators of Project Paradise, open the door and lead the way deeper into the earth along a narrow concrete passageway to a Nazi-era bunker. During World War II, Berlin's huddled masses sheltered here as Allied bombs flattened their city. Until Nov. 2, you're more likely to bump...
...there are more of them, pairs upper-cutting and right-hooking, more arriving at the gym and sliding mitts and gloves onto their hands. Andre M. Pentalver ’06 winds a long strand of yellow tape around his fingers. The action is instinctive and Pentalver can’t quite place the logic behind it. Scott Valez ’05 swoops in and says, “For our knuckles. Otherwise these things will get fucking chafed. It also absorbs some of the sweat, the moisture...
...daybed for $398. She also picks up a tasseled pink paper lantern for $12. "Why in the world would I need that, right?" she says, laughing. "But it just looked so cute and was so cheap." Plus, she reasons, everything will look great with her daughter's pink-and-yellow flowered comforter from Company Kids and the new desk from PBKids (part of Pottery Barn). "When I was growing up, I had to share with my four sisters and a brother. I was lucky to have a bed!" she says, exaggerating just...