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...deck after the rescue, a banana boat holding what appears to be two men scoots past the ACV. Jumping into the tender, the three officers chase it down. The boat turns out to be carrying 15 people - infants, a grandmother, men, women and children - huddled beneath black plastic sheeting to stay dry and avoid the cold wind. Their documents are in order. By 0900, half the Yorke funeral travelers have passed the checkpoint and there's still no sign of the smuggler...
...real reason for the protest may be that local people profit from renting out their properties - so the hotel would cut into their incomes. Mayor Kubera says this may be partly true, but suspects a mistrust of foreigners to be the overriding reason. "We spent 50 years in a plastic bottle and now have a problem with somebody looking or acting differently...
...recruiting engineers at a furious pace, aiming to increase research-and-development teams to 60% of LG's total payroll by 2005, from 40% today. One recent afternoon at the LG Electronics Corporate Design Center in Seoul, young Koreans in jeans and hip black sweaters were packing up plastic models of computer monitors and microwaves to move to new offices. With the number of designers up 15% in the past year, to 390, the center has added an entire new floor. "As we emphasize our brand, design becomes more critical," says the center's president, Lee Hee Gook...
...intact. Smart, good-natured and media savvy, he had a genius for improvisational humor. When a cop walked into a bank mid-robbery, Dillinger greeted him with a hearty "Come right in and join us!" He was also as tough as nails. In one harrowing scene, he undergoes amateur plastic surgery to alter his appearance (tragically, they filled in his dashing cleft chin). As for his colleagues--alas, the truth about "Pretty Boy" Floyd isn't pretty at all. But it's a whole lot of fun. By Lev Grossman
...Vietnamese people came to our village and kicked in our doors and attacked us." Now, having trekked for days, he is hiding in Ratanakiri?some 600 km from Phnom Penh and the nearest office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. He lives beneath a small sheet of plastic with five other men in dense jungle, where torrential rainstorms are daily occurrences. In another group elsewhere in the province, an eight-year-old girl has built a miniature house out of twigs in a clearing of jungle beside the plastic sheet where she is camped with her family. She says...