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DIED. Neroli Fairhall, 61, champion archer and the first paraplegic athlete to compete in the Olympics; of undisclosed causes; in Christchurch, New Zealand. When rival archers at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles complained, wondering whether the New Zealand national champion gained an unfair advantage by sitting in her wheelchair, Fairhall deftly silenced them. "I don't know," she said. "I've never shot standing...
...agricultural products. The U.S. exports about $600 billion in cargo through ports that were hit by the hurricane, and some 2,000-ton barges are literally stuck in the mud, says Larry Daily, president of Alter Barge Lines. "It's like you've clogged the pipeline for a week." Archer Daniels Midland, a major grain exporter, operates four grain terminals in Louisiana. Several hundred of its barges are stranded in the lower Mississippi, some grounded and waiting to off-load. The firm is studying rail alternatives and considering diverting some shipments to Galveston, Texas...
...rest. According to a notice on the window of the manager’s office, rents at Charlesview range from $1,165-$1,494 a month. But if tenants are in exceptionally dire financial straits, the owners are accommodating, occasionally charging nothing—as happened the year Edna Archer lost her job.Archer, 42, came to the United States from Guatemala 20 years ago, following her mother to Massachusetts in search of work. Now employed by a medical company in Bedford, Mass., the single mother moved from nearby Everett Street to Charlesview three years ago with her two children, aged...
...beyond a complaint that not having money sucks. Dance-rockers Radio 4 provide the basis for the second track, “Middle Eastern Holiday,” and the album continues in a similar vein, trotting out monodynamic mid-tempo homages. The voice of lead singer John Archer sounds a bit like new wave heavyweight Joe Jackson, but stripped of any edge. And when he tries to be James Murphy-cool on the LCD Soundsystem sound-alike “Gotta Reason,” he can’t quite pull it off. Most disappointing (besides the fact...
...timing couldn't be worse for the chocolate industry. A week before Valentine's Day, Nestl, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland--the cocoa suppliers for virtually every major chocolate producer in the U.S.--will have to show up in court to answer for allegedly supporting child slavery on West African farms, where 70% of the world's cocoa is grown. The hearing, set for this week in Los Angeles, stems from a lawsuit filed by the International Labor Rights Fund, which is also taking aim at another Valentine's Day staple: lovely bouquets that happen to be laden with pesticides...