These masses soon become tombs; as the cells on the outside proliferate, those on the inside, starved of nutrients and deprived of oxygen, die.
Flat roofs of reinforced concrete have held together as they crashed down and became tombs, making a solid barrier against rescue work.
Today it has become its tomb run by a corporation of grave diggers in gowns who have carried out the perfect crime.
"A poorly designed one," she remarks, "can become a tomb".
Part of the terror of September 11th was the gleaming skyscraper become a tomb, the seeming backward march of time, the horror of the unreasonable.
Years later, Zoe has turned into an acutely miserable version of "poor Ellen," desperate to escape a man who has become "the tomb of them both".
Today it has become its tomb," said Luca d'Alessandro, a PdL MP and secretary of the lower house of parliament's justice commission.
By the time he was pulled out, Khanal had been trapped – in what could have become his tomb – for 82 hours.
At the end of the Mass, Archbishop Francesco Montenegro of Agrigento, Sicily, described Lampedusa as the island of "hope and death," a "reef and a lighthouse" that for too many has become a tomb.
A last letter from Captain Scott, written in the tent that would become his tomb with the Antarctic temperature outside at -40C and food and fuel gone, is revealed in full for the first time on Friday, the 101st anniversary of his death.
