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...blockade has proved anything but airtight. An estimated 10,000 Haitians cross the Dominican border each day to buy fuel, which they lug back in plastic jugs or pulley across ravines. At the Malpasse border crossing east of the capital, wooden fishing boats openly ply barrels of illegal gasoline and diesel from an open-air depot on the Dominican side of the island...
...yacht sleeps eight in three private cabins with every creature comfort: carpeted floors, TV and VCR, two bathrooms with showers and a roomy galley. It can be outfitted with a harness-and-pulley mechanism, so that people with handicaps can sail the boat and move easily above and below deck...
Among requirements for the rank of eagle scout are community service, leadership and organizational ability. So when Scout Kenneth Pulley industriously organized volunteers a year ago to clean and paint eight of the 800 bus shelters in his hometown of Portland, he was rewarded four months later with a promotion to eagle. More recently, Pulley, 16, earned a less meritorious recognition: his project was cited in a labor grievance for violating the local transit union's contract with the agency that runs the city's buses...
Complaining that Pulley's cleanup ignored provisions against subcontracting union work, labor leaders rasped that the project, which saved the agency about $480, should have been cleared with them. Transit officials defended the agency's right to work with volunteers. When the eagle scout was summoned as a witness in an arbitration hearing last week, at least one union leader was faintly defensive. Richard Ries, business manager for Division 757 of the Amalgamated Transit Union and a former eagle scout, allowed that "it sounds like we're taking a broadsword to the scouts." But sometimes, he insisted, good deeds...
...earth, Korean-born Video Artist Nam June Paik, 53, lives in Manhattan. More specifically, he inhabits the top of a converted warehouse with a rusting cast-iron facade in SoHo. Entree to Paik's aerie comes via a freight elevator, with the host himself hauling on the chain pulley that drags the motor into grumbling life. As the aging contraption shakes and shudders toward the fifth floor, Paik says in heavily accented English, "After this, everything anticlimax...