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...angry,? she says. ?I?m a strong independent woman. ?Even so, Fuller concedes that she and Baker made the mistake of venting their emotions and ?pushing each other?s buttons? when the cameras were rolling.? Watching was pretty scary,? she says. The worst part was seeing Baker become an object of public ridicule and scorn. "People really hated Jonathan, and that was disappointing," she says. "He's a great guy and has great friends. And we?re pretty secure with...
...year. Polls already show that the popularity of Gov. Ed Rendell, the incumbent Democrat and former Mayor of Philadelphia, is sagging in the Western and Central part of the state. Rendell has so far failed to make good on his promise of property tax reform, and many social conservatives object to his support of slot machine gambling. Although Swann is still making some rookie mistakes-making attendees at one North Philadelphia rally wait over an hour in a cold, unheated warehouse, and then failing to acknowledge the officials in attendance during his remarks-he is already a household name...
...Field will be difficult over the next week. The police have already started warning the homeless to stay away from the festivities, says Mike "Chicago" Jones, another homeless man. "If you don't have a valid ID on you, they're going to run you off," he says. The object, both men agree, is to keep the homeless from begging and trying to park cars and generally make the city look bad in the eyes visitors and the media. But despite the Potemkin intent of the local authorities, homeless advocates in Detroit are generally supportive of the plan. Though...
...however, shipbreaking represents a business opportunity. Five nations - Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and Turkey - account for 90% of the world's shipbreaking industry. But increasingly, countries that break up ships are learning that they pay a price: workers' safety standards in the yards are notoriously low, and some countries object to being a dumping ground for richer countries' toxic waste. The legal framework around shipbreaking, like much in the maritime business, is murky. In 2004, the signatories of the 1989 Basel Convention, which regulates the transport of hazardous waste, agreed that a ship bound for demolition could be considered...
Though the house is owned by the University, every object in it has been collected by Gomes over the past 35 years. Gomes, who once aspired to the curatorship at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, says he loves antiques because they connect him to the past...