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...small steel ship that doubles as her family's home. It's just 10 m long; the engine a mere 20 h.p. But the 49-year-old matriarch uses the modest craft to ply the waterways for riches. She finds oil spills, sucks them up with a powerful hose and resells the fuel. Cruising along the Liu Creek, looking for bounty, we stand together on the cramped deck, imagining what it was like in Zheng He's day. "I guess I have a bit of the same spirit," says Fan. The banks that once were filled with cheering throngs...
...Michael Haulin, a Cambridge-area business owner, reports that John Hose attempted to steal a can of sardines. When confronted, Hose allegedly tried to choke Haulin...
...Instead, Cambridge? recently adjusted living wage of $10.68 per hour applies only to three clearly defined groups of workers?hose directly employed by the city, subcontracted workers whose firm has a contract of greater than $10,000 with Cambridge and organizations who receive grants of more than $10,000 from the city...
...just airlines and doctors who are responding to the growing furor over DVT. Last month Sigvaris, a Swiss hosiery company, introduced special ?anti-thrombosis hose,? which it is marketing to long-haul flyers. And Club Direct, a British travel insurer, recently altered its standard insurance policy to include a special DVT provision?the firm says it will cover legal expenses of up to $36,000 to help a passenger sue an airline in the event of DVT-related death or injury. Some people can find a potential silver lining in any cloud...
...nine of us formed an e-mail list to synchronize our schedules. For a while we shared a lot of information quickly and efficiently, but then someone lobbed an online insult, or "flame," and the fire soon raged out of control. Some of us fled. Others stuck around to hose things down. But things were never the same...