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...soldiers who patrol the streets, keep the peace and bide their time until they are scheduled to return home. The second world belongs to the 1,200 men of the Special Forces who, since the occupation began, have overseen rural Haiti. Taking on the roles of sheriff, prosecutor, judge, plumber, mayor and ghostbuster, these commandos are often the only glue holding together the 5 million Haitians who live outside the capital...
Today most heart disease is treated as though it were primarily a mechanical malfunction. Clogged arteries are either reopened with the equivalent of a plumber's snake or bypassed by vessels borrowed from other parts of the body. But while such heroic measures can relieve pain and reduce debilitating fatigue, they generally forestall death for only a few years...
...Hamza peered into the lens, her dark eyes excited and anxious. Cut to a crowded living room, where relatives smiled and ululated in celebration. As a voice-over explained that no sanitary precautions would be taken, no anesthetic applied, Nagla was tilted onto her back by two men -- a plumber and / a florist -- and her legs prodded into the air in a wide V. While the florist cradled her from behind, the plumber wrapped Nagla's hands around her ankles. Then the plumber quickly leaned in between Nagla's legs and cut off her clitoris with a pair of barber...
...right. And four days after our flight, in the safety of Miami's Catholic Relief Services office, we finally meet our rescuees. Their faces are still sunburned, their hands still blistered from rowing. One is a bright-eyed 37-year-old plumber by the name of Sergio Fidel Castro Hernandez. He and five friends had slipped away after dark from a Havana beach in their little vessel made of six bus tires. For two days, they rowed and drifted in the Gulf Stream without food or water. On the second day, shortly before the rescue, they spotted another group...
...movie Jurassic Park, dinosaur fossils are found by a jet-setting paleontologist with a millionaire benefactor and a glamorous female assistant. In real life the relics are more often discovered by the likes of Stan Sacrison, 37, a plumber and electrician who likes to wander around sheep ranches near his home in Buffalo, South Dakota, looking for prehistoric bones. Last May, while scrambling up the side of a butte, he noticed an unusually large pelvic bone and three sun-bleached vertebrae poking out of the siltstone. "I could tell right away it was a Tyrannosaurus rex, because they're really...