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...precedent to look back on. How the accident actually happened is what has even grizzled veterans scratching their heads. The result of what happened is emerging: the plane came violently apart and sent huge sections of the aircraft hurtling through the air. The so-called vertical tail fin - the vertical part of the tail with the distinctive 'AA' logo on it - was recovered from the water looking oddly clean and undamaged, looking as good as the day it left the hangar...
...Bush looked shocked. He shrugged his shoulders, smiled and then waved as if going on a voyage. "You thought we were bad," joked Presidential adviser Karen Hughes of the One China Question Policy. In a private lunch of Shark's fin, fried lobster and Dim Sum at tables with 1,000 roses each, Jiang was not shy about expressing his contempt for the press. It was an area of common ground with his guest. "I like the way China did it when it comes to press conferences," Bush joked later...
...inch Frisbee provides a perfect replica of the dorsal fin common to the Landshark’s oceanic relative. But as Dichtel clarifies, “It is not a Landshark until it gets on the shoulders of two or more people, and hovers over the crowd [at a party...
...fin! The music starts. He springs up like a grasshopper and dances over his songs' bold introductions. Each song, he explains, has been arranged with a unique instrumental prelude that highlights a particular global sound: an African clay flute scampers across one track, an accordion moans on another, a Uruguayan quijada (jawbone of a donkey) scratches on a third. "We're creating world music in a Long Island basement," he says with a laugh. The song speeds up and, wanting to show off some complicated turns, he asks to have this dance. He's clumsy but an emotional dancer. Then...
...picking up African treasures. Today, as I stroll along the harbor, stevedores off-load shipments slowly - a languor born of chronic underemployment. Still, the Chinese come. "We Chinese can find business opportunities everywhere," grins Cen Haokun, one of three affable brothers who own six restaurants and a shark's fin and sea cucumber exporting business in Mombasa. Farther down the coast, Mohamed Oloya lops dorsal fins off great whites, then sells them to a middleman who transfers the shark bits to the brothers Cen. The Malindi-born fisherman is unsure why the Chinese crave a useless chunk of cartilage...