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...peeling and chopping vegetables, spinning them dry and then heaping them in small plastic packets before placing them in plastic transport crates. At the other end of the 5,600-sq-m warehouse, men unload crates of grapes from a truck pulled up to a spotless loading dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good a team will ready them for delivery within hours to Reliance Fresh stores around Bangalore and as far away as Hyderabad and even Mumbai (formerly Bombay). If they're not, workers will inspect the entire shipment and discard anything...
...After years of witnessing this misery, Calais officials voted last month to reopen a refugee center in September near the city's ferry dock. Immigrants will receive hot meals and showers there, but, unlike the shuttered shelter in Sangatte, no one will be allowed to sleep in the building. The plan has outraged some politicians in Britain, where, as in Sarkozy's campaign, immigration is a hot issue. Conservative Party immigration spokesman Damian Green has said he fears a fresh stampede of illegal immigrants from a new Calais center. The Calais mayor's spokesman Bernard Barron counters that his city...
...Iraq's only access to the Gulf. Fadhila, the strongest Shi'a militia in the city, pretty much monopolizes the trade. Fadhila currently offers pilfered oil for $10-12 a barrel. Buyers have to arrange for small freighters to ship it to Dubai, where it is sold at the dock for around $30 a barrel. The oil is sold on the international markets, commonly using a false certificate of origin or blended with other oil to disguise its origin. More and more frequently, however, co-opted employees in Iraq's Ministry of Oil help document the oil. Traders can expect...
...critic writing in 1967, “The Bach Society Orchestra concert was the major disappointment of last week’s musical offerings. Many heads could roll when a collective effort like this goes awry, but the conductor, John Adams is the one who must stand in the dock.”“I remember being just shocked and upset,” Adams says of that concert and its reception. “It was the first time I ever got a real stinker.”However, the harsh words would prepare...
...Officers were dispatched to a report of a suspicious item in the Blackstone Steam Plant Complex at 46 Blackstone Street in Cambridge. The officers reported that the item appeared to be road flares wrapped in tape and rope that were lying on the ground near the loading dock. The Cambridge bomb squad arrived and determined that the item was indeed suspicious and therefore X-rayed the item. The bomb squad reported that the item was wiring. Harvard University’s Facilities Maintenance Operations confirmed that the item was wiring for a motor that was being installed for a gate...