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...freighter that had been won in a poker game by Gu Liang-chi, who went by the street name Ah Kay, the leader of a Fujianese street gang that controlled East Broadway. According to U.S. government charges, Ah Kay, Sister Ping and several other snakeheads loaded the ill-fated hulk with immigrants. When it ran aground in the icy, turbulent waters off New York in June 1993, 10 of the 300 passengers perished trying to escape the ship. As it turned out, the U.S.-based guide who was supposed to organize the unloading had been killed in a gang dispute...
...while the athletic benefits can be considerable--fencers must cross-train rigorously to balance muscle development in their arms and legs--many kids sign on for the unique intellectual challenge. It's not unusual for a skinny kid to beat a beefy hulk. Alyson McCormick, whose son Sam, 11, trains at Metropolis Fencing, a school in New York City, recalls fretting when Sam was about to spar with a burlier opponent. "But he said, 'Don't worry, Mom. He does the same thing every time. I know what I need to do,'" she recalls. After losing the first few points...
...proper-thinking modernist architect in the mid-1950s would have given London's Bankside Power Station much chance of making it into the canon of modern architecture. An enormous, darkly lowering hulk of brick, it dominated the south bank of the Thames like a factory, which in fact it was. But more valuable buildings have been lost to economic boom and proactive aesthetics than were ever ruined by decay and indifference. Nobody tore down the Bankside Power Station because none could agree on a use for its site. It just lay there, an unloved, comatose and grimy princess, waiting...
...back in style. Just pass by any magazine stand, and you'll notice the explosion of fitness magazines. Shiny, muscle-bound men and women smile at you while gigantic veins course under their tanned, oiled skin. If you're old enough to remember the 1980s television character the Incredible Hulk, played by Lou Ferrigno, you'll be as amazed as I am that these days almost any guy seems able to develop a body as brawny as his. Welcome to the world of unregulated muscle-building supplements, where creatine is king...
...point without them." The saddest customers, he says, are the little boys, 12 and 13, brought in by young fathers. "The dad will say, 'How do we put some weight on this kid?' with the boy just staring at the floor. Dad is going to turn him into Hulk Hogan, even if it's against his will...