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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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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Indium is leached from slag and dust of zinc production and the metal further purified by electrolysis.

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

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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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But perhaps you need more exposure to slag, sewage pumps, adhesion promoters, viscous fluid dosing machines and state-of-the-art grease cartridges.

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He cleaned them in the early years, when they'd hauled lime and slag all day on the roads round Carlisle, and he was still cleaning them in 1985 when he had 26 of them.

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