Word: airport
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They are not dependents. They are pioneers, able to find work, to send money home, perhaps to start what the Dominicans call the cadena, a chain of migration linking one immigrant to another. They seem to be everywhere, checking the luggage at airport security gates, working in the emergency rooms of inner-city hospitals, cleaning hotel rooms, selling lottery tickets at newsstands, peddling flowers on city streets, even writing scholarly papers on such topics as "Coping Mechanisms of Immigrant Family Heads." They subsidize yuppie gentrification, performing the unseen, labor-intensive, minimum-wage tasks: folding the towels in the health...
After the Korean Air jumbo jet landed at LAX, as the locals like to call their airport, the first instructions over the public address system were given in Korean. "If you have any questions, please ask us. Regardless of your destination, you have to declare baggage and clear customs here. Thank you." Yeon Hee Park and her boys were shown to the proper desk. "I am a little uncomfortable," she said through an interpreter. "Not afraid. I know my husband is here. He will take care of us." Her husband In Wung Park, 37, was nearing the airport about then...
...Sunday morning, the crew of Air India Flight 182 made a routine call to the control tower at Ireland's Shannon Airport. The flight, which originated in Toronto, was going just as planned. The plane was cruising at 33,000 feet above the North Atlantic, about 120 miles southwest of the Irish coast. The tower gave clearance to proceed to London's Heathrow Airport for refueling, and the crew promised to report back before landing. Then, just six minutes later, the Boeing 747 suddenly disappeared from radar screens. "One second it was there, and the next it was gone," said...
That unsettling possibility gained further credibility as details emerged about an explosion at the Tokyo international airport less than an hour before the Air India crash. As baggage from Canadian Pacific Flight 003 was being unloaded, a bomb suddenly ripped both the door and roof off the freight container, sending clothes and suitcases flying. The explosion killed two airport workers and injured four others. Had the flight not arrived from Vancouver a quarter-hour early, the bomb might have gone off while the 747, which carried 374 passengers and 16 crew members, was over the ocean...
...airport, the story continued, by Wolfram Bossert and driven in a rickety Volkswagen down a potholed dirt road into a virtual slum. "My father's house," Rolf remembered, "was nothing more than a wooden hut." Inside, it was meanly furnished with a bed, a table, a few chairs and a closet. As he entered the house, Rolf recalled, "my father trembled with excitement. I saw that he had tears in his eyes...