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...invaders, George Dasch, sprinted up to the officer, explaining that they were lost fisherman - and offering a bribe not to say anything, which of course made the Guardsman all the more suspicious. The officer went back to his station and reported the incident, but by then the team of four had made it into town and hopped a train to New York City. There they split into pairs, got apartments, bought clothes and had some nice dinners. Then Dasch did what he had apparently always intended to do: called the FBI to turn them all in. He told the local...
...school at Carnegie Mellon and after having been busted and bailed out for marijuana possession, I wrote my first song. I was living with my grandmother in Watch Hill, R.I., working in a boatyard, trying to get past being a hippie. I wrote the song Edgar for a lobster fisherman there. It isn't very good, but the next week I wrote three more. I was really enthusiastic. I started doing gigs on the folk scene in New York and Boston, and about a year later I had a deal with Atlantic Records--one of the "new Bob Dylans...
...husband, all Zhang Jiaqin saw was a wisp of black smoke emanating from the ground. It could have been a harvest blaze or the remnants of a cooking fire. But as she stood in the cornfields of this hardscrabble corner of southwest China, Zhang knew better. Like a fisherman's wife who scans the seas when the weather turns turbulent, a coal miner's spouse recognizes the fatal signs: a thread of smoke, a muffled boom and then a rush of blackness flowing from the charred earth. "I knew he had died the moment I saw the smoke," says...
...Hand, ecstasy and colonic irrigation. On the island of Koh Phi Phi, a formerly idyllic haven now crammed with dive shops, restaurants and travel agents offering cut-rate tours to see where Leonardo DiCaprio filmed The Beach, Australian Simone Richard has the traveler look down pat: washed-out Thai fisherman's pants, dirty blond hair squeezed into corn rows and fading henna on her hands. Over?honestly?banana pancakes, the 22-year-old says she's made friends with people from all over the world, except the countries she's visited. "Everywhere you go it's the same thing: travelers...
...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. "The Chinese know how to make money," he shrugs, "even from something that no one else wants...