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Several thousand men, women, and children lived on that dump--enduring the stench, the flies, and the toxic waste in order to make a living combing the garbage for scrap metal and other recyclables.
In the great tradition of political and cultural journalism, the editors will spend the week lying on the beach, perhaps reading the odd scrap of old-fashioned print-on-paper, and resting up for the election campaign and other ordeals ahead.
This resulted from a far-sighted 1950s Energy Department program to recycle scrap metal from nuclear weapons facilities into forms that could be used in household products, jewelry, and even children's braces.
One day during a university English class, a very discomfited student, after frantic and obtrusive dictionary work, handed a colleague of mine a scrap of paper.
The paper-and-pencil standardized test, that mainstay of meritocracy, soon will join the manual typewriter, vinyl records, and communism on the scrap heap of the 20 th century.