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...world in which albatrosses originated, the birds swallowed pieces of floating pumice for the fish eggs stuck to them. Albatrosses transferred this survival strategy to toothbrushes, bottle caps, nylon netting, toys and other floating junk. Where chicks die, a pile of colorful plastic particles that used to be in their stomachs often marks their graves...
...more or less work; and everyone agrees it will soak the economy. The rule would limit truckers to one 12-hour shift per 24 hours. The current regulation allows for 10-hour shifts followed by eight hours' rest (or a maximum 16 hours per day of driving). Some drivers pile on the shifts in consecutive days to achieve their maximum 60-hour workweek within four days, so they can work a second job in the remaining days...
...only fitting that the only magazine left last Sunday evening in the free magazine rack outside the Delta shuttle at Logan was the official magazine of the Republican National Committee. There were at least a dozen copies of the Winter 2000 issue, in fact, stacked up in a large pile--clearly not a big seller in the bastion of liberal thought that is our hometown...
...would just give me a pile of things to take care of. He learned that he could rely on me more, and I could work more independently," she added...
...wife evidently felt otherwise, strongly enough to pile her son into a makeshift boat piloted by her hustler boyfriend and set out to sea--a fatal choice, as it turned out. The last decision she made was perhaps the one that saved her son's life, when she dressed him for the journey in the bright orange jeans and sweat shirt that fishermen say they found him in, colors that often keep sharks away...