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After 9/11, Pennsylvania men find strength in faith
… into a stand of hemlocks. Everything was reduced to mostly unidentifiable rubble. "Pieces of plastic from the main body of the plane hung eerily in the trees burning and melting. I'll never forget the constant sizzling sound the dripping plastic made in the leaves on the ground," Miller recalled. "I'll never forget that." Miller and …
Real art makes demands: Wendy Beckett on blasphemy and censorship
… controversial works of art in modern times: Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ," a photograph of a plastic crucifix in a bottle of the artist's own urine. To suggest the work is blasphemous, …
Growing carrots in wading pools
… Compost them. Begin growing vegetables. Lots of them. Grow them in kiddie wading pools, plastic grocery bags, and milk containers. See them thriving in abandoned playground sites, … yard long beans, flourish on the grounds of a former playground in little blue wading pools, plastic grocery bags, milk containers, on vertical A-frame wooden pallets and, yes, in the ground …
Not enough to stem the tide
… and fell around the cooperative’s warehouse as farmers arrived in pickup trucks filled with plastic jugs of honey. Cooperative officers weighed the honey, checked the quality and poured it …
Staking their lives
… Day morning, a small group of women from the Palenque parish hauled disposable plates, plastic forks, water and a tub of cooked noodles to the railroad tracks at the edge of town. …
The Catholic love of nature
… dove off a floating dock in the middle of the pond, but now they use diving boards and tubular plastic slides along a straight cement wall at the deep end. Despite the cement, the tree canopy …
A walk in the dark: patrolling with the Samaritans
… were? There are also food caches and bright yellow Church World Service emergency blankets in plastic bags. Considering the weather turned cold and rainy the next day, this all seems to be …
A 'maddening' system, from courtrooms to shelters
… and his collar button undone. He draws often on a white nicotine inhaler that looks like the plastic mouthpiece of a cheap cigar. He thinks the laws he just helped enforce are something of …
Belfast riots renew calls for Protestant-Catholic dialogue
… most tense neighborhoods. In an effort to break up the fights, police fired at least 66 plastic bullets but made only one arrest: a young woman was detained on suspicion of possession …
The Big Here: an education in place
… what direction do storms generally come? -- Where does your garbage go? -- Who uses the paper/plastic you recycle from your neighborhood? -- Point to where the sun sets on the equinox. How …
The fine-tuned universe -- part one
… circle. It’s hard-core science fact, as reliable as the chemical formula for producing glue or plastics. If the gravitational constant were infinitesimally different one way or the other, the …