Word: outboard
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...into Colorado streams to help maintain what it calls the angler-satisfaction rate. Montana, however, does not stock its streams; authorities suspect the Madison may have become infested when some angler unwittingly dumped infected rainbows into it. The spores can also be carried from stream to stream by boats, outboard motors and even mud on the soles of wading boots...
...haircuts. Whiting, burly, with a broken nose, speaks fluent rough-and-tumble French that he learned in the legion while serving on Mururoa. Baker, a lean, hard mountain climber with a seen-better, seen-worse expression, speaks nothing but rich, working-class Sussex. Someone says, "Cheers," Baker revs the outboard and the little inflatable, low in the water, rocks away on the swell, towing the kayaks toward Mururoa. The air is still, and for 10 minutes more the whine of the Zodiac's engine can be heard on La Rebaude. Then, nothing...
...that the illegal traffic is growing, and it is international, with refugees arriving on this remote stretch of beach from Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, even China and Japan. One telltale sign of the booming refugee trade: the Dominican Republic has become the largest importer of outboard engines in Latin America. Says a U.S. official: "There are boats every day taking people from all over the world into the U.S. through here...
Currents were so strong in parts of the city that outboard motors strained uselessly--an oddly fitting trial for the birthplace of Arthur Rimbaud, one of whose most famous poems was Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat). In the calmer Charleville streets of Rimbaud's boyhood district, swans cruised nonchalantly like grand seigneurs inspecting their expanded watery estates. Downstream in Belgium, the Meuse overpowered a number of evacuation efforts in the town of Dinant. Householder Tony Delussu was exasperated after two floods. ``I'd just finished putting new wallpaper in my living room,'' he explained. ``I won't stay around...
...National Crime Information Computer has recently reported a rash of thefts of outboard motors along the Charles River, Harvard police said...