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...pools on the main drag. Honiara has electricity and telephones, but both systems are prone to mid-afternoon heart attacks. The ramsi economy - blow-in consultants, home security, caf?s, hotels, vehicles and the like - does have some trickle-down effect. But for father of five Peter Loea, 36, a fisherman, "the jobs aren't there" and finding money to school his children - the government has promised to make primary education free from 2006 - is proving to be difficult. Much of the fish he and his brothers take to market near their home in east Honiara's Vaivila remains unsold...
...Chor Joo is concerned, they already have. The 30-year-old Malaysian fisherman was on his usual night run for shrimp and squid a few kilometers off the western coast of peninsular Malaysia in June when his 9-m wooden vessel was approached by a rifle-toting group he assumed were policemen. "They fired some shots in the air and told me to get on their boat. They were young, about 25 years old, and grim-faced, looking like some gang from a movie, some of them wearing bandanas around their heads, all carrying rifles and a few with grenade...
Harry Haney has been ice fishing on Michigan lakes ever since his dad took him when he was a kid. But when a friend and fellow ice fisherman died after falling through the ice a few years ago, Haney, a state-park maintenance worker in Rhodes, Mich., decided to create a vehicle that would prevent similar tragedies. His Snow Boat is a 14-ft. custom-made aluminum craft welded onto a standard snowmobile. If the ice breaks, the boat stays afloat so passengers won't fall into the freezing cold water...
...This is something my grandparents wanted to take part in but didn’t get the chance to, and I’m here for them,” said Michael B. James, a fisherman from Scituate, Mass., who said he arrived at the parade route...
...clear picture of the U.S. He told his debriefer he tried to understand Western culture by watching U.S. movies and listening to Voice of America broadcasts. He loved Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea because he read in the tale of the brave but failed fisherman a parallel to his own struggles. "Even a hollow victory was by his reckoning a real one," the report says. Far more worried about Iran, Saddam did not consider the U.S. a "natural adversary" and throughout the '90s, he had his officials make overtures for a dialogue with...