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...challenge of securing the loading and movement of containers is formidable. Anyone can lease one of the many millions of containers that circulate around the globe, then pack it with up to 65,000 lbs. of items, close the door and lock it with a seal that costs half a dollar. The box then enters the transportation system, with all the providers working diligently to get it where it needs to go as quickly as possible. Accompanying documents usually describe the contents in general terms. If the box moves through intermediate ports before it enters the U.S., the container manifest...
...SAYING: Why stop now? Witherspoon has won just about every acting award on offer this time of the year, and her vehicle is, at least, a mainstream studio film, and those are in very short supply on the Academy's list of nominees. Nobody is saying the word lock yet, but she is the front runner...
...dating stuff. Somebody, who I maybe knew, broke into my apartment towards the end of the year, and just sort of - I was there, I was asleep - watched me sleep, apparently. Took nothing. Just turned on all of the lights, stayed in my apartment, and broke my lock. That was scary. I thought, is this one of the people I had dated? I don't know who it was. It did no harm, but terrified me. That was pretty scary...
Picture this:A bunch of renegade Penn fans storm the quiet town of Princeton, N.J. on a mission. They round up all the members of the 2005-2006 Tigers basketball team and lock them in a little room somewhere in the cavernous expanses of Jadwin Gym. Then, the Quaker faithful hire all of the members of the 2002-2003 Columbia team—the one that went 2-25 overall and 0-14 in the Ivies—to pose as Princeton players for the duration of the season.At the first practice in the fall, Princeton coach Joe Scott doesn?...
...politics” and being marked as oppositional. Young people who criticize the government are called “sell-outs” and “white-sympathizers.” Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock them up for a year for insulting the president. For the more notable critics of government (oddly myself included), the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO)—known to torture, maim, and cause people to magically disappear—steps...