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...love the Fung Wah Bus.You’d find that hard to believe if you knew my history with the discount New York-to-Boston bus line. I’ve spent an entire trip sitting in front of a drug dealer who talked on his phone about going to Boston to “make some collections” and, if necessary, “do the John Gotti thing.” I’ve napped on the bus, only to wake up and find a woman performing oral sex on a man in the seat...
...Chris and Jacqui gamble their lives each night in the Gulf of Mexico, where they must avoid invisible rocks that rip the bottoms off boats. Lightning fries navigation systems, and storms sweep men off deck. Their only connections to the rest of the world are radios and unreliable cellular phone reception.And the shrimpers themselves are notorious, too. After trying day labor and construction, they often drift to this profession, where there is no boss but the ocean. As we sped farther into the Gulf, Chris scrutinized the regional section of the paper. He wanted to see his friends?...
...succeeded. Lamas was searching my.harvard.edu for some glitch in the system that would give her the answers. Eventually, a fellow freshman told her that when users view their student termbills—accessible under the Campus Resources tab of the my.harvard portal page—their dorm room phone numbers were displayed at the tops of their statements. Lamas eventually dialed her number and got the voice of a summer school student living in Canaday, who told her what room they were living in. “I think they were more confused than anything,” she said...
...captains have already edged their vessels into a far tighter square, sealing off all exits. One by one, the exhausted fish die, their bodies banging against the boats, and their blood turns the water red. On the deck of one boat, Sevilla, clearly delighted, whips out his mobile phone and calls in the day's estimated catch to his managers in Barbate, so that they can negotiate with Japanese buyers waiting in the harbor. The fishermen whoop in delight as cranes hoist their catch onto the boats. "This is our best day this year," says one, adding: "You brought...
...said Nancy Bort of Arlington, Va. Bort seemed unfazed, despite having been on a flight dubbed "red" by the Department of Homeland Security. "After seeing what's going on in the world in general, I don't know how you can worry about this," she said later in a phone interview. "I still think I have a greater chance of being hurt in a car accident than getting killed by a terrorist. I just don't think you could worry about this on a daily basis...