Word: fisherman
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...into the cab at the San Francisco airport to go to the hotel at Fisherman's Wharf. I looked at the meter, and it was $25 after five minutes. We were like, "What? That's ridiculous." So it gets up to $65, and we're passing the stadium, oddly enough. We're just running our mouths, like "We have tickets to the game. If we catch the ball, we're going to come into some money. What if we don't pay for this cab fare right now, but if I catch the ball, I'll give...
Oyarce would have been finished with his neighborhood near Pisco's fisherman's wharf if his crew only had to move debris. The streets, however, are now home to dozens of families who have stacked their few possessions in front of what were once their homes and they are not moving for bulldozers or work crews. "These people have lost everything and now we have to ask them to move away from their homes. It is the hardest thing I have had to do," he says. "There is resistance, but people cannot stay here, it is unsafe...
...science overmaster chaos and the last surprise flashover consumes its last unlucky victim. Until then, we will have need for those willing to place themselves in the gap between knowledge and peril: the firefighter at the blaze, the police officer in pursuit, the soldier approaching an ambush, the fisherman nearing a gale. Though their perception may prove imperfect, their courage is never obsolete...
...civil war ended in Angola in 2002, Luanda was anything but a boomtown. Bombed out and rubbish strewn, the capital was - and still is - home to one of Africa's biggest slums. Five years later, the pace of growth is best measured by the island of Mussulu, a former fisherman's village off Luanda. Today Mussulu is a playground for Angola's new oil oligarchs. Its white shoreline, 10 minutes south of Luanda's new yacht club, is teeming with power boats and jet skis. "That guy likes to bring people here in his helicopter," says Valdemir, a fisherman, pointing...
...Beedie, 32, a fisherman since he was 16, sits awkwardly in his living room amid a mess of pink toys, dolls and DVDs belonging to his three young daughters. He was reared in a code of strength and guts, yet now he speaks of being "spooked by the sea." His lawsuit claims he was so traumatized by the sinking that he could not return to fishing and was left unemployed. "They used to say the boats were made of stick and the men were made of steel," he says. "That's not how it is anymore. Men aren...