Word: plasticizers
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...midnight. Except for Chris, the captain, and his deck hand Jacqui, I was alone and miles away from the shores of Florida.Chris was as small as a boy, though he was 41. On another shrimp boat, a battery exploded in his face. When he pulled out a piece of plastic, his right eye came with it. Now he wears goggles, which protect his glass eye and the other one, that one he cannot afford to lose. Jacqui stepped onto the Sea Hawk with her boyfriend three years back, and the 39-year-old became addicted to the solitary ocean...
It’s hard to be a wine aficionado in college. Whenever I stare into a plastic cup full of God-knows-what at a Harvard party, I always think of that scene from Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited” where an intoxicated Oxford student vomits on another, and one of the drunkard’s friends explains to the vomitee: “The wines were too various….It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was mixture...
...passengers still clutched the plastic bags given to them at Heathrow for their wallets and passports. Some had been reunited with their luggage, which they had hastily repacked upon arriving to Heathrow early in the morning. All carry-ons, including magazines and house keys, were banned from British flights until further notice...
...from the remote region's boab trees. Also for sale are indigenous art and craft and the handiwork of local women. A handful of people have gathered around a young woman displaying a laundry gizmo. Slim, tanned and cheerful, Sheree O'Brien, 34, is spruiking The Amazing Handiwash, a plastic agitator that cleans dirty clothes in a bucket...
...been to Doug Wallace's place before, the big black spider hanging above the front steps will give you, if not a heart attack, a hint of what's inside: 83-year-old Wallace-"I'm a bit of a joker," he says, for the spider's only plastic-and, lurking among the books and papers that swamp what most people call the lounge room and he calls his workshop, more spiders, real but safely dead and under glass...