Wooden huts lie within a few hundred metres of a toxic slag heap.

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He had seen the low slag heap of our culture and assumed it was a true expression of who we are.

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It was created in the 1930s from a huge slag heap resulting from one of the largest iron and steelworks in Europe.

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We thought that only man could make something as forbidding as a slag heap, but apparently gods are capable of ugliness, too.

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Nonsense, says Mike Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who argues that because all of us have equal access to it, the Net relegates libel and slander suits to the slag heap of history.

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The actual is sliced, diced and winched forward, only to tumble off time's assembly-line into the great slag-heap of now.

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