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...year visas annually. North Carolina, which imports more legal farmworkers than any other state, offers an idea of how the guest-worker proposal might look in action. During the past growing season, I canvassed the state, from the Christmas-tree farms in the western mountains to the crab plants on the eastern shore, and found a guest-worker program that is orderly, rational, legal--and almost completely unworkable as it currently exists...
...Inside, the pleasantly tacky decor has hardly changed in years. Trishna will be crammed with a mixture of local businessmen, Bollywood celebrities and tourists. You sit in small wooden booths that add to the sense of crowding, while waiters bring you live crabs to show the various sizes available. Dressed with butter and garlic sauce, the crab is divine and deservedly the speciality of the house. You can have it in the shell or out, depending on how much mess you want to make. I had it without and it came as an oily pile of joy on the plate...
...after 18 months, she gave in. Under then ceo John Pepper's mentorship, Reid hopped within the consumer-products giant, rising ever higher in title. But after 10 years, she broke off and started Global Lead Management Consulting. She likens her decision to leave P&G to a hermit crab deserting its shell to seek a better one. "I was fueled by fear and driven by faith," she says. "I'm scared of drowning, and that's why I scuba dive. You've got to face up to the fear and own it to get to the next level...
...told Cao that he had made reservations for dinner at the restaurant Upstairs in the Square, when in fact he was planning a candlelit dinner in Randolph Courtyard of Adams House. Pagano told Cao that he was spending the day in lab, but instead prepared for dinner, buying lobsters, crab legs, scallops, fruits, and champagne. “I recruited the Adams super., dining hall manager, and the House masters to help me out a bit,” Pagano writes. “I set a rather fancy table up in the courtyard, and left a note...
...large round central image, like the one for Thanksgiving 1905, in which a giant turkey - a kind of poultry Godzilla - uproots Nemo's house with its beak. Thanksgiving two years later expanded upon the dinner-table creatures: the humungous turkey was joined by an equally large lobster, crab, duck...