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...mudflats for their shift, armed with fishing permits gained with false documentation. They could not read the signs warning them of the tides, and neither they nor their gang boss heeded locals' advice not to venture too far. Eventually 11 workers headed back to escape the icy wind and rain. By 10 p.m., 21 had drowned and two were missing, never to be found. Only one man, Li Hua, was rescued from the inky water that night, plucked from a rocky outcrop some 1,000 m from the shore...
...claustrophobic. The largest are just 10.5 sq m, though they're tall enough for even the most statuesque of guests to stand up in. Also jammed into that space: tiny workstations and en suite bathrooms about the size of those on jetliners that include luxury "rain showers." There are no exterior windows, allowing the pods to be stacked and clustered in sites never before considered for hotels. "It's a very flexible product," says Russell Kett, managing director of hotel consultants HVS in London. The Gatwick Yotel is being crammed into a previously unused basement of the airport's South...
...first marathon was very interesting. I woke up, and it was pouring rain. The streets of the city were flooded ankle deep; there was ankle deep mud,” Conroy recalls. “This continued the whole day. By the end of [the race] you’re hypothermic. You’re absolutely freezing...
...this kid’s been playing rugby in the rain so he’ll be ready,” Conroy says, gesturing to Volpe...
...fact that we are all here standing in 30-degree freezing rain is a message to Harvard,” said Allston-Brighton Neighborhood Assembly member Jake Carmen. “We may not have the money, but we have something they don’t have: heart...