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...honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. To the south, in Galle, an old Dutch town on the Sri Lankan coast, Z.A.M. Fahim, 45, a restaurant owner, has found 32 bodies before midday. He walks toward what was once a busy junction in the town and claims that the giant swamp that now obscures the ground hides 500 more corpses. To prove his point, he walks over to a marshy landscape of tires, rafters and mud. "There," he says, with a note...
...scribbling out equations on their so-called “midterms” that occur on a weekly basis, you’ll be relaxing quietly in a dark lecture hall looking at pictures. Maybe you can even sit in the back and take a midday nap. It’s like preschool all over again. You’ll spend much of your time at the Sackler and Fogg museums, which is great, because some serious learning gets done there. Enjoy exploring undiscovered pathways like the gruleings four-floor climb to your section in the Fogg. Feel proud...
...People preparing for departing flights at the JetBlue airlines terminal were met by airline officials instructing them that items like hair gels, aerosol cans and even lipstick must be placed into their check-in luggage, prompting longer waits in the normally quick midday lines, and forcing several people to step into uncrowded areas to open their suitcases and place their personal items inside, as well as consume or dump any beverages they had planned to bring onto their flights...
...scrub and 240 km north of Port Hedland, a gray-haired multitude has gathered at the end of a gravel road off the highway. All are wearing shorts, some carry rods and reels. Hundreds of time-rich wanderers are fishing or collecting shells on Eighty Mile Beach in the midday sun, while their well-traveled 4WDs and homes on wheels rest in the caravan park behind the dunes. These gray nomads jest that they are part of the SKI club: Spending the Kids' Inheritance...
...first learned of the DUI arrest when one of Levin's sources phoned him on midday Friday. When he subsequently heard that the episode didn't occur without incident, as the Sheriff's office had asserted, Levin obtained from his sources accounts of Gibson's actions and comments, as well as the complete report the arresting officer, deputy James Mee, filed that quoted Gibson's statements about Jews. Thus, a scoop was born...