I AM in a deep, deep tunnel, die-straight and dark and two miles long, a fingernail of faraway brilliance at its mouth brightening every second until, with startling suddenness, it is daylight.
The Sylvester Stallone movie "Daylight" postulated a disastrous explosion in the Holland Tunnel; "Die Hard 2" showed terrorists taking over the air control system at Dulles Airport and crashing an airplane; and "Black Sunday" depicted a extremist group planning to blow up the Superbowl with explosives loaded on a blimp.
Mr. O'Brien's father, Robert, a project supervisor who had arranged for his son to take the job, was with him in the tunnel when he died.
France and Italy began work on a rail link today to ease pressure on routes like the Mont Blanc Alpine road tunnel, where dozens died in a fire three years ago.
Investigators have been studying the site alongside Austrian soldiers who, by this evening, had removed the burned remains of 128 victims from the two-and-a-half-mile tunnel where they died.
This morning, a local farmer who sets up shop downtown outside the Post Office for four hours every Saturday (except the weeks of Thanksgiving and Christmas) told me that even the cold-hardiest greens in his high tunnel froze and died last week.
Soon everyone is running and screaming through a maze of randomly shifting tunnels, and dying in a variety of painful and ingenious ways.
Scores died tunnelling deep under Moscow.
The cubs, whose parents were smuggled through underground tunnels from Egypt, died Thursday in the Hamas-run Bissan Zoo in Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza.
O'Neill planned to build a network of stations connected by these tunnels, but he died two years before his first patent on it was granted.
