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Grenada was meant to be one of the beneficiaries of Reagan's 1983 Caribbean Basin Initiative, a plan to stir economic growth in the region by granting twelve years of duty-free entry into the U.S. for products from 21 Caribbean and Central American nations. But the free-trade clauses were $ stripped away as the bill made its way through a Congress more intent on protecting special interests in the U.S. than on helping the Caribbean. Last year, Caribbean exports to the U.S. dropped by 23%, a decline due in large part to a poor market in sugar, bauxite...
Backstrom has been riding the streets of Cambridge for seven years, frequenting the commercial skateboard park "Zero-gravity," a cement-lined basin, before it closed several years ago. Now, he practices at Turtle Park, a public facility on the Charles River with a paved surface just right for tricks...
...trees, the MDC at one time tried to uproot all the sycamores lining my lovely banks to construct an underpass for Memorial Dr. Which would you prefer to see? In deference to the MDC, they have started planting Japanese cherry trees closer to the Basin, but why can't they haul some of those undeveloped fruit stands up this...
...fireball that rose over a conifer forest in the remote Stony Tunguska River basin in central Siberia on the morning of June 30, 1908, reached an altitude of twelve miles, and the blast was heard hundreds of miles away. Those closest to the explosion, the townspeople of Vanavara, 40 miles away, felt a wave of intense heat; windows cracked, objects fell from walls, and one man sitting on his porch was thrown several yards and knocked unconscious. Trees were flattened and scorched over an area of several hundred square miles, their felled trunks all pointing away from the epicenter...
...chrome abandoned to rust, stood unlocked next to supermarket baskets painted to match the vessels they served. Boats with some chance of being called yachts were berthed on A and B docks. The people tied up inside the piers next to the boatyard declared themselves IBLWT, or Inner Basin Low White Trash, and had logos and T shirts printed...