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...East was only possible by commercial ships. Today there are about half a dozen freight lines operating in Asia that accept paying passengers, which charge $70-$130 per day per person. Voyages range in duration from a 10-day short hop to an epic 114 days (the latter being Houston to Houston on the Egon Oldendorff line, via the Suez Canal, with Jakarta the easternmost port). All the lines have age limits for passengers, ranging from 70 to 80 years; none offer doctors on board...
...together, suggest something was very rotten at the heart of French state capitalism. Elf at the time was state-owned, and the most damning evidence to date has come from its erstwhile CEO, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, and two top corporate lieutenants, Alfred Sirven and André Tarallo, the latter dubbed Mr. Africa. They have meticulously described how Elf kept a slush fund, overseen by Sirven, allegedly used to pay bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan...
...electroclash doesn’t signal a return to the jittery rhythms of “Planet Rock” and its progeny, but rather to Kraftwerk and the cool futurisms of synth-pop. Herein lies the problem; the profound inhumanity of machine music was central to the latter group’s ethos and appeal. With the radio often sounding more deranged and metallic than those early experiments, this late revival really comprises some of the oldest sounding new music around...
...according to results from McLoskey’s online survey, 95 percent of Latter Day Skates customers aren’t Mormon and don’t understand the puns and references. McLoskey is undeterred by the lack of Mormon know-how among his clientele. In fact, he regards his inroads with the non-Mormon demographic as a “sign of success” for his company...
Between answering e-mails, taking orders and personally packaging and shipping his products, McLoskey sometimes spends upwards of 70 hours a week on Latter Day Skates business. Company paraphernalia litters the McLoskey home in Quincy, Mass. Mrs. McLoskey doesn’t share her husband’s affinity for skateboarding, but the love seems to have been passed down to the next generation—their two sons started on skateboards...