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Below America's waters lies a junkyard. Every year, thousands of boats, barges and ships sink or are abandoned in the U.S., having been rendered unusable due to accidents, weather damage, age or an owner's financial duress, and the vast majority of them are never recovered...
...course, there are governmental policies in place prohibiting ship abandonment: state laws fine and sometimes jail owners of derelict vessels. The problem is, there's a strong financial disincentive against retrieving and recycling sunken vessels. Dismantling a 40-ft. yacht costs an owner on average $5,000 to $10,000, but the costs can run to 100 times that amount. "You can't just crush it up into a cube," says Helton. Meanwhile, state fines for abandonment run a lot lower, as little as $100. Definitions of vessel, abandonment and ownership also vary among states, which means that ship owners...
...Gist: In October 1910, a bomb ripped apart the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times, killing 21. The paper, at the center of a "you must take sides" conflict between labor and capitalism (the broadsheet's owner, publisher and editor, Harrison Gray Otis, detested the former) quickly blamed union terrorists. Interweaving the tales of Billy Burns, a private detective known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," famed attorney Clarence Darrow, of Scopes Monkey Trial fame, and filmmaker D.W. Griffith, director of Birth of a Nation, Blum attempts to weave an early twentieth century murder mystery...
...Highlight Reel: 1. On Otis, the gruff Times owner: "The riots, were, he firmly believed, only the opening salvo in a war that would not be over until the unions were driven out of Los Angeles. Compromise would be surrender. Rather than negotiate, he prepared for new battles. He now called himself "General." He christened his sprawling home "The Bivouac." He mounted a cannon on the hood of his limousine and made sure his chauffeur was prepared to repel, at his command, any enemy attacks. He modeled the paper's new printing plant on a fanciful vision of an impregnable...
...partners bought the restaurant four years later and went on to open up the two popular restaurants in Harvard Square. Kordsomboon started out as a teenage chef in Thailand, cooking at restaurants across the country and quickly mastering the tastes and recipes of various regions. In 1979, an owner of a Thai restaurant in Dallas, also from Thailand, applied for a green card for Kordsomboon so that he could employ him. That year, Kordsomboon took his first step on American soil, and when the Dallas restaurant owner returned to Thailand, Kordsomboon relied on his connections to move to Boston...