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...Other workers are packing skinned and eviscerated water monitors into cardboard boxes marked "Frozen Fish." The boxes are stacked onto hand trolleys and rolled over to one of several refrigerated containers lined up next to each other. One worker swings open the door, releasing a frigid blast into the humid tropical air. Inside, hundreds of other boxes stacked from floor to ceiling are visible. "We can send one or two containers out a week," Hendrawan says. Chances of interception on the way to buyers are small. In 2001, for example, China banned all direct imports of live freshwater turtles from...
After scanning storefronts along Magazine Street for what little canned food or water remained, Farmer walked by his ravaged high school, Isidore Newman, in the neighborhood of Uptown. The trees that had shaded the city’s humid streets had keened over onto roofs and roads, covering some streets, he said...
...inflatable boat is the most valued piece of police equipment in these parts. Before ramsi, there was no police boat or vehicle, and local officers often had to borrow canoes or walk long distances to bring in a suspect or respond to a call for help. On a cloudy, humid afternoon, in Roviana lagoon, south of Munda, RSIP officer Ege Saro skippers the inflatable around shallow-lying coral reefs. Reaching open water, he pushes it to a zippy, if bumpy, 27 knots. After a 50-min. journey, the boat arrives at Rendova Island, and Curragh and Sergeant Allenson Tiazy jump...
...World Bank, I thought I was enduring some hardship for the benefit of the poor in some other country. I thought that while my friends were making $10,000+ for the summer at large private investment firms in Manhattan, I would be slaving away in hot and humid D.C. as a lowly clerk in a poorly-ventilated basement cubicle that I would share with ten other people, at least two of whom would be from a country that didn’t believe in deodorant...
...runners for all but two miles, finishing at 2:07:51 and breaking the old Boston record by a full minute. The athletes were apparently not the only ones spurred on by the lure of loot. Some half a million spectators refused to let the gray, humid weather dampen their spirits. "The crowd support on this course, in this race, is something I've never experienced before anywhere in the world," said De Castella. "It's unbelievable...