According to the police, the three boys, all 12 or 13 years old, were building a skateboard ramp yesterday in a vast, rubble-strewn lot on 11th Street near Second Avenue in the Gowanus section.
In 2002, when he first ascended a podium overseeing a vast pit of rubble, there was a moment of seeming national unity and moral clarity.
The center of Hama was pulverized into a vast field of rubble interspersed with bits of clothing, yet on the fringe of it stood, astonishingly, a tourism office.
The two great obstacles to getting people into permanent shelter, never mind full reconstruction, are the vast quantities of rubble and land disputes.
The process of identifying the victims has been slowed by the extensive injuries to people who were crushed, and by the task of picking through the vast amount of rubble left behind by the magnitude 6.3 quake.
From the day the towers toppled into a vast pile of rubble, he described the scene as a rescue operation, and hewed to that description for nearly a month, when it seemed clear that no life could be found there.
In the Spanish pavilion Lara Almarcegui has placed a vast mound of rubble that reaches up to the ceiling; Stefanos Tsivopoulos in the Greek pavilion has created a wall of text about alternative currencies and a three-part film in which a woman makes bouquets of flowers out of euro notes.
GAZA, State of Palestine, 29 September 2014 - Ten-year-old Shaima lives in Shuja'iyeh in eastern Gaza City, a crowded neighbourhood now mostly reduced to a vast expanse of rubble.
We explore the long, colonnaded street, the vast amphitheatre and rubble-strewn temples, and clamber around the caves that riddle the cliffs – not habitations but burial places, it seems; the ground inside is carved into grave-shaped hollows.
Similarly glum expressions meet the foreign dignitaries who trudge through Gaza's rubble promising vast sums of aid, including $5.4 billion pledged at a conference in Cairo on October 12th.
