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...business: realizing the value of the Faina's cargo, he demanded $35 million, although that figure was later reduced to $20 million. But he likes to cast it as also a protest. "We were forced into this work," he argues, speaking from the Faina's bridge at anchor off the village of Hobyo. "We were fishermen. I used to work in the sea every day. But ships from other countries fish our coasts illegally, destroy our nets and fire on whoever approaches them. We were refused the right to fish. They even dump toxic waste. We couldn't work...
Greg Kinnear's latest movie, Flash of Genius, about the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper and his battle with the Ford Motor Company, opens Oct. 3. He spoke with TIME about how real rain is bad for the movies, which news anchor would have made a great actor and his plans for retirement...
...different languages are now spoken in Aurora public schools, and the area boasts two Russian-language newspapers as well as half a dozen African grocery stores. "The county changed," explains Ritter, who grew up on a small wheat farm near Aurora. "Working-class families moved in and became the anchor to Arapahoe...
...Originally turned down the job as anchor of PBS' "Washington Week in Review" because she was upset at the abrupt firing of her predecessor, Ken Bode, who left over a disagreement about whether to make "Washington Week" more argumentative. Ifill took the job after executives agreed to keep the show's polite demeanor...
...build factories and offices. KAEC's speciality will be plastics - in the masterplan, a large swath of the city is designated "Plastics Valley". There will also be a $6 billion aluminum complex and a container depot. The UAE aluminum maker Dubal has already signed up as one of the "anchor" industries. Chocolate maker Mars will be another. The city's planners hope KAEC will eventually create 40,000 industrial jobs, and many times that number in service jobs...