Word: pots
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STIRRING THE POT...
...best," says Madeleine. "It's in boxes, all arranged." Nor do the inhabitants of Mindwube just find food. There are "plates, dresses, jewelry, liqueurs, TVs, dvds, fridges, children's toys and mobile phones," says André Boussougou, 40. His specialty is aluminum, which he sorts and sells to a pot manufacturer, and leather, which he hawks to a dealer who exports to Europe. "It's really two worlds in Gabon," says Ernst & Young's Watremez. "Rich, poor. There's nothing in the middle...
...called "the Cheech and Chong show" by Bill Clinton's drug czar, General Barry McCaffrey.) The longtime Republican believed in the therapeutic effects of the drug on more than 200 ailments and in 1996 saw a bill he crafted, Proposition 215, pass in California, legalizing the use of pot for the seriously ill. The "grandfather" of the medicinal-marijuana movement said his fight to "restore cannabis" stemmed from a backlash against its medical use following the late-'30s film Reefer Madness. He was 73 and had cancer...
...that she's excited by the changes. "Many of the reasons people leave Singapore when they are young will be gone," Kwok says. "Life can only become more cosmopolitan and sophisticated. Everything will be less boring." Kwok adds that she expects Singapore will become "more of a melting pot like Manhattan, but at the core will be the heartlanders who've lived here for a long time and can pass along their values...
...both come from a long line of fishermen, and their fathers were together on a boat that sank in 1980. Nobody died in that wreck, and nobody thought to file a compensation claim. They returned to sea the following week. Today, stiff, stooped and grimacing as he makes a pot of tea, Beedie's father Willie struggles to answer when asked how he feels about his son's case. "You want what's best for your son and for your grandchildren," he says, but he adds: "Fishing is not an easy life. My son knew that." His wife, Rhoda Beedie...