Word: fishermen
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Many of her classmates at Harvard worked as lifeguards or camp counselors to make money when they were young. As a child, Chock caught crawfish (also known as crawdads, mudbloods and mudcritters) and sold them to local fishermen for bait...
...Apart from two squid fishermen preparing outriggers under the Gauguin sky, I couldn't see another soul along the length of the beach. It was almost impossible to imagine this tranquil sea, waveless and lambent with the day's dying glow, as a foaming cataract of devastation. And as the waiter glided off to fetch another drink, I remembered Jahrani's parting words: "We live on the edge of the fire here in Flores. We know death can come at any time, from the mountains or from the sea. So we must try to savor each day like...
...island of Patmos, he jumps at it. He obviously hasn't heard the one about Greeks and gifts, and he soon discovers that his new job is less like Zorba the Greek and more like Kitchen Confidential with ouzo. Stone has to deal with tourists who party till dawn, fishermen who want their coffee at 7 a.m., gossipy locals who are afraid of the evil eye, and a partner who goes by the nickname O Lados (the Oily One). In the end, O Lados gets his just desserts, and so do we, in the form of a generous appendix...
...sustained his family for generations. "I'm like the fish," he says. "I can't leave the sea." But he is a fish with almost no water. Israeli restrictions on the movement of Palestinian boats have made fishing sometimes dangerous and almost always unprofitable. Before the intifadeh, Gaza Strip fishermen brought in $40 million of fish annually; last year the catch was worth $28 million. The figure is likely to fall further this year, as more of the 2,650 fishermen run out of money to operate their boats...
...enforces periodic closures of the sea. The Oslo accords allow Gazans to fish up to 20 miles off the coast. But during the intifadeh, the farthest the Israelis have let them go is six miles. So close to shore, Bakr says, there just aren't any fish left. The fishermen try to sneak out to where the fish are more plentiful, but the Israelis are vigilant. Usually they arrest a member of the crew for a few days and release him; sometimes they impound boats...