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...coastal barangays, or villages, it's impossible to monitor the comings and goings of every vessel. The coast guard's staff of about 5,000 employees is insufficient to patrol the country's 35,000 km (21,747 miles) of coastline. In a Dec. 14 accident, when the MB Mae Jan, bound for the town of Aparri, capsized, killing 45, there was no coast-guard detachment present in the area, so there was no one to review the MOSD or prevent the overloaded vessel from sailing. "That's really the problem that we have," says Gimotea. "To regulate, I really...
...Still, the danger deters few travelers. On a balmy afternoon just before Christmas, Manila resident Maristella Cempron waited patiently for her SuperFerry at Manila's crowded South Harbor. It was just a week after the MB Mae Jan accident. The 27-year-old security guard admitted to "having some jitters." But she wanted to return to her family for the holidays. "I'll take the risk," Cempron says. Bautista, the transport undersecretary, sums up the problem: "The main issue here is the safety culture of the Philippines," she says. "We have very, very low regard for safety...
...overseeing a rapid recovery from the 2001 recession due to tax cuts and shrewd economic policy, the administration has made consequential efforts to shore up America’s economy in this latest financial crisis. As the largest buyers of sub prime mortgages from 2004 to 2007, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac helped fuel the housing bubble and exacerbate the burst. The Bush Administration tried no fewer than 18 times, publicly and on the record, to push Congress to agree to reform these Government Sponsored Entities. And while Defense and Homeland Security spending has increased to face the perils...
...rose to celebrity from the direst of circumstances. Born in South Carolina, in 1927, the spawn of an African-American and Cherokee woman who had been raped by the white owner of a plantation, Eartha Mae was jettisoned by her mother at eight. Sent to an aunt in Harlem, she quit school at 15 and lived for a time in subways - an all-too-familiar blueprint for emotional disintegration...
...other non-white American stars - Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Anna May Wong - had left their homeland with its crushing racial roadblocks, to find work and acclaim on the continent. But they were in the middle of their careers, and never matched their European eclat back home. Eartha was just starting hers. And in postwar America, the movies, Broadway and cabaret were more welcoming to black performers, especially ones with a touch of aristocratic or sexual exotica: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Eartha - not Keith - Kitt...