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...standing in front of the pool hall would look up and see the big black crate ghost down the street at forty, and one of them would spit on the concrete and say, "The bastard, he reckins he's somebody," and wish that he was in a big black car, as big as a hearse and the springs soft as mamma's breast and the engine breathing without a rustle...
...there is the gargantuan flea market encircling the St. Sernin basilica. Then there's the hectic, everything-goes market sprawling around the Place St. Aubin - fruits and vegetables, meat and poultry, fish and shellfish, cheese, bread and pastries, herbs and spices, jellies and jams. If you need shampoo, a crate of oysters, a new mattress or an African drum, this is where to find it. Then, since this is Toulouse, it's time for lunch...
...acquires a nuclear weapon on top of his hoarded biological and chemical ones, he will, according to Bush, wreak catastrophic harm on his enemies, which means the U.S. The ultimate method, said Bush, would be for Saddam to hand off to a terrorist network "one vial, one canister, one crate" of his deadly weapons "secretly and without fingerprints" to "bring a day of horror like none we have ever known...
...item for regular UPS ground (three to five business days). AMAZON.COM ships free when you spend $25 or more (with some exceptions). Elsewhere, shipping can get pretty steep. If paying CRATEANDBARREL.COM $8.50 to ship a $40 fruit bowl sounds unreasonable to you, check to see if the Crate & Barrel store at your local mall has it in stock...
Everyone who works at the Detroit crossings knows that just one lapse could let a crate of AK-47s or Semtex, a cache of anthrax spores or nerve gas, even a dirty bomb or a "nuke-in-the-box"--a stolen nuclear warhead--into the American heartland. "We don't even talk about what happens if something gets through," says Anderson. "Every day, we say we're going out there and stop everything." It's a far more serious business than when he signed on as a customs inspector in 1971, and his employment interview consisted of two questions...