Word: carriers
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...Number of undelivered letters?some up to four years old?found in the home of a Malaysian mail carrier...
...Number of undelivered pieces of mail found in the home of former British mail carrier Michael Glenn Bowes earlier this year...
...sisters who swam competitively, Phelps was practically raised at the pool. "The summer he was born was the summer I started swimming," says his oldest sister Hilary, 26. "The poor kid was always getting dragged to the pool." His mother Debbie remembers bringing baby Michael along in a carrier and parking him on the pool deck during his sisters' practices. When he was 7, Phelps learned to swim, but it took weeks before he could do anything more than the backstroke. "I was afraid to put my head underwater," he admits...
...them in her case) in Colombia and excreting them once she has cleared customs in El Norte. It's ugly work (you may want to avert your eyes while she is endlessly swallowing the drugs)--and dangerous too. If a packet breaks, the heroin will kill the carrier. But, of course, the money is great--thousands of dollars for a week's unpleasantness, enough to lift Maria's fractious family out of poverty and pay for the birth of the baby she is carrying...
...Most of the men whose portraits adorn today's U.S. paper money either were founders of the nation or helped preserve the Union. Their achievements didn't last just a lifetime; they will last forever. Since Reagan left the presidency, an airport and an aircraft carrier have been named after him. The Postal Service has announced it will issue a commemorative Reagan stamp next year. Although his warm smile lent popularity to his economic-recovery programs, Congress should approach with caution a change to our legal tender. Let time and history judge whether Reagan should be given the final honor...