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For inefficient manufacturers and companies that can't pass higher costs on to customers due to competitive or contractual constraints, a world of $40-per-barrel oil could prove distinctly inhospitable. The Chinese city of Yuyao, a sprawl of factories and warehouses about three hours from Shanghai, has been a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crude Awakenings | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

Another old story concerns "a certain maritime incident," also known as the children overboard affair. In October 2001, two days into an election campaign in which Prime Minister John Howard successfully portrayed his government as tough on border protection, ministers claimed that illegal immigrants aboard a fishing boat code-named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth Overboard | 8/25/2004 | See Source »

Tela O'Donnell, 22, a native of an Alaskan fishing town, is the opposite of the street-toughened Montgomery. Her toughest opponents as a kid were the sheep she wrestled near the log cabin she shared with her mother, a part-time mime. O'Donnell will compete in the 55...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women's Wrestling: Grappling for Progress | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

As has been the case for most of her work, Orlean said she overreported for the book. She specifically described time spent in Everglade City, a “poor fishing town in South Florida” where unpatrolled ports made the city especially conducive to drug-smuggling.

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Orlean Discusses Book ‘Adaptation’ | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

The Taliban and al-Qaeda don't grow the opium poppies. Their involvement is higher up the drug chain, where profits are fatter, and so is their cut of the deal. Yasini says the terrorists receive a share of profits in return for supplying gunmen to protect labs and convoys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism's Harvest | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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