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...Steele's office, which he shares with his deckhand, Barry Moore, is a $750,000 aluminum boat, Cutloose, equipped with six beds, a shower, toilet, TV, microwave oven and satellite navigation that directs them to any of the 78 pots they've placed on the ocean floor. "Since I started, the technology's gone from a watch, compass and flagpoles to state-of-the-art stuff," says Steele, 49. Throw in quotas and faster boats, and "it's a day game now." Still, in fishing season the days start at about 3 a.m. and leave Steele exhausted. Decades...
...admitting collaboration, those caught lying were banned from public office for 10 years. Some 27,000 people were affected. But under the new law, anyone born before August 1972 and holding a "position of public trust" - an estimated 400,000 in all, including journalists, teachers and even factory-floor managers - may have to make the same declaration. Those who fail to get a clean bill of health from historians at the state archives, known as the Institute of National Remembrance, could be fired. Since the communist era ended, allegations of collaboration with the communist secret police have often been exploited...
...rescue workers toiled under a roasting sun to extract the dead from inside the building. The victims had sheltered on the ground floor in the belief that a large pile of dirt and sand for construction would help protect them from air raids and shelling. But the earth had become their grave when they were buried beneath it by the force of the explosions. Two soldiers cautiously used spades to dig away the dirt. What was left of the building teetered heavily to one side and looked as if it would collapse at any moment...
...each day, these issues and others are debated on the third floor of my dormitory, Reznik 19, into the early morning hours. Israelis and Americans, Jews and Arabs, sit in a square of wooden benches on stone—an area affectionately known as the “Jacuzzi” because of the deep, open space in the center where we stick our legs–and discuss the latest developments...
...useless center. Nowadays, everyone knows Sayansi because the chosen remedy to its erstwhile grunginess was to paint one wing a bright blue, and the other an equally radiant white. The two bodies of paint meet in a momentous curve that swoops from the South wing’s top floor to the base of the North wing. In a capital city full of garish wonders, Sayansi must surely occupy a top spot. Perhaps, though, the decoration was merely a way of declaring, “I must be reckoned with,” which is surely true in my instance.So...