But I thought, if the memorial is in the ground, mine will be all of glass and steel; if the memorial was to the dead, I want to make a building that is alive, one that actually moves".
More worrying, Koide confirmed that uranium rock and finely ground mine tailings had been used as ballast for road leveling and house building and to construct a local school and clinic.
He said the British Mark I ground mine was an anti-shipping mine designed to operate underwater and to arm after it was 12ft (3.7m) under the sea.
Ms. Slaughter, who admits she's treading on "treacherous ground, mined with stereotypes," gives examples, cites research, quotes other women and proposes that society must change to value putting family ahead of work — nothing short of a revolution in values.
"Here I step onto treacherous ground, mined with stereotypes," she wrote, adding, "I do not believe fathers love their children any less than mothers do, but men do seem more likely to choose their job at a cost to their family, while women seem more likely to choose their family at a cost to their job".
Here then, you'll spend hours wandering the landscape, discovering the wildlife (there are cows, pigs and other useful critters, which can be slaughtered for food or domesticated for milk and wool); you'll construct bizarre homes and outhouses; you'll dig deep into the ground, mining for precious minerals like diamonds and the enormously useful redstones.
In 1998, the mine-safety administration reported that surface hauling accounted for 30percentt of fatal, above-ground mine accidents.
Biddle calls it "above-ground mining".
United Nations officials said that they were desperate to move the refugees to higher ground, but that land mines were another factor hampering relocation efforts.
The middle ground, sprinkled with land mines made up of racial labels, is now a place where fair-minded people dare not tread.
Some bomblets fail to explode upon hitting the ground and, like land mines, can remain a deadly hazard to children, farmers and others long after a conflict ends.
