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With 24-hour access beginning next year and rumors of a café, one could hypothetically forego housing and actually live in Lamont, accruing fringe benefits like comfortable chairs and an employee whose job description seems to include reading tabloids attached to bamboo sticks and wearing shorts...
...water that reached up to his neck, Gómez had been lost and rediscovered three times in the wake of the avalanche. His hair and mustache matted with muck, Gómez talked as four farm workers from a neighboring town cut away the restraining slats and removed a bamboo pole that the survivor was clutching with all his strength. Next to him was the body of his landlady, who had died, Gómez said, "about an hour ago." It took three hours to rescue the man. As volunteers scooped frantically at the mud, Gómez explained that...
...last Oct. 15. The sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came ten days after the leader of Taiwan's powerful Bamboo Union Gang, Chen Chi-li, and his lieutenant, Wu Tun, were sentenced in a civilian court to life imprisonment for carrying out the murder...
...opening act by the Harvard Phillipine Forum, which incorporated hip hop into a traditional dance with long bamboo rods, set the tone of the show, according to Hakeem A. Rahim ’02, who said he has attended many past shows...
...Germany, is sitting on Patong beach and having, he says, "a very nice holiday." He's not alone. Hundreds of plastic deck chairs line the sand in two neat rows. Local hawkers do a steady trade supplying beer and tanning lotion to the crowd, while, behind them, kneeling on bamboo mats, masseuses cheerily press their palms into the backs of heavyset men for $8 an hour. On the beachfront, more holidaymakers pile into caf?s to order pizza and hamburgers and fried shrimp and slurp down mango shakes. Anya and Toon Bakker, a retired couple from Holland, have traveled from their...