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"I took a technical diploma in Sidon, then came back to work here. That was 41 years ago." Salah Barake surveys the ruin before him. "They destroyed it in two minutes. Millions of dollars wasted." Barake is, or rather was, the SPI (Shift Plant In Charge) at Tannayel's Maliban Glassworks.

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