Word: boated
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...building would be the world's tallest.) As it rises, it would echo the lines of the Statue of Liberty just across the water, a sight that Libeskind, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors, first glimpsed as a teenager when he arrived in the U.S. by boat with his parents. In the scheme's subtlest gesture, that tower's upper elevation is given over not to offices but to "sky gardens," whole floors of plant life high above the city. This is architecture that is both cerebral and emotional. The scheme moves vertically from grief through commerce to spirit...
...into darkness softened by a fine drizzle when the parade turned the corner and started towards us. A police officer driving a tiny Garda hatchback led, ready to fend off traffic if there had been any. A few dozen children followed her, carrying trash-bag puppets on poles and boats made out of cardboard with sails of flowered sheets. Eight or ten kids supported a plastic tarpaulin rendition of one of those undulating dragons you see in Chinese New Year’s celebrations. The parade marched by, circled the block and marched by again, the children bouncing their trash...
...boat has room in its hold, the sharks may be kept with the rest of the catch and sold for their meat. If not, their fins, prized on the market for shark-fin soup, may be cut off and the rest of the animal--alive and bleeding--tossed back. In 2000, former President Bill Clinton signed an order banning shark finning, but that covers only U.S. fleets, and whether all of them comply is hard to know...
MEANWHILE Squid in Love A French trimaran sailing in a round-the-world race was attacked by a giant squid in the mid-Atlantic, its skipper, Oliver de Kersouson, announced by radio. "The squid was pulling really hard, so we put the boat about and when we came to a stop the tentacles let go. We saw it behind the boat and it was enormous" - 9 m long, a crewman reckoned. Only 250 have been seen since 1639, so maybe it was just lonely...
...Levin's global village, breads and bagel dough are transported frozen by boat, while less easily preserved treats are brought in via suitcase or FedEx shipment. And said shipments have recently increased in frequency thanks to their most popular dessert: a collection of cakes that positively ooze with nostalgic sponginess, gooey creamy centers and utter American-ness-Twinkies, Suzie...