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...Booth followed the advice, ingesting more new food, culture and adventure in those three years than most people manage in a lifetime. He eventually returned to Britain, supported himself as a truck driver, legal clerk, wine steward, English teacher and, only after he turned 40, a writer. But that boyhood hunger for discovery would help shape 13 novels, six books of children's fiction and 10 nonfiction works of history, biography, criticism and reportage. Add his mountain of articles, television scripts and poems, plus the 400 books by other poets (including Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney) that...
...Similar despair is felt by Angelo de la Cruz, the 46-year-old truck driver and father of eight who became famous last month for being kidnapped in Iraq. De la Cruz, who was released after Arroyo agreed to pull the country's 51 troops out of Iraq, risked his neck driving oil tankers in battle-scarred cities like Fallujah for $8 a day because he could find no equally lucrative work in the Philippines. "I knew Iraq was dangerous," he says, "but I had no choice." Back home in his ramshackle village of Buena Vista, his high profile hasn...
...country's 86 million people are compelled to seek work overseas, often in miserable or dangerous circumstances. Jobs are in such short supply that street demonstrators in Manila last week protested a government ban on sending workers to Iraq?a ban Arroyo enacted after Filipino truck driver Angelo de la Cruz was taken hostage by Iraqi insurgents on July 8 and threatened with beheading unless the Philippines withdrew its soldiers. The protesters were undeterred by the bloodshed and kidnappings?they said they were willing to risk their lives for relatively high-paying jobs abroad...
...grew up a big fan of Formula One races and have enjoyed many years following the sport. Unfortunately, as more and more high-tech auto innovations were allowed, I began to lose interest. The racing was getting sterile, even boring. Now, with almost zero competition among the cars and drivers, you can count me as one whose interest is nonexistent. Larry Bolt Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S. Schumacher's superiority is not hurting Formula One; it is the pinnacle of motor racing, and viewers should understand they are watching history in the making as Schumacher racks up more world championships than...
This epiphany came last Friday when I cut off a Toyota SUV. After I slipped in front of him, the driver decided to pull alongside me on the right and then cut me off in return. He slowed down in front of me, dropping from 50 to 40 to 30 m.p.h.. The hazard lights came on at 25 m.p.h. and flashed all the way down to a cruising speed of 5 m.p.h...