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Through what he would later call his "nomadic years," he tried a series of jobs, some out of Dad's playbook, others way far away. He worked as a management trainee for an agribusiness company, delivered messages for a law firm, worked on an offshore oil rig and on a political campaign and on a ranch, and as a sporting-goods salesman at Sears. And with each passing year his parents grew a little more worried about him, and he knew it. It all famously came to a head at Christmas 1972, when he was home visiting and took...
...Install door locks from the outside, or rig doors with alarms...
...major rivers in America," he says. Next year he intends to attack the Ohio, from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh. He'd love to clean up the Hudson too and, maybe, while he's at it, the Potomac. What would help is a tugboat of his own (the homemade John Deere rig is showing its age, and hitching rides with commercial haulers is a hit-and-miss affair), but even without one, he vows, he'll plunge ahead, refrigerator by refrigerator, prosthetic leg by prosthetic leg. "I'm going to do it right," he says, steering his runabout into a small...
...coming years, high tech will increasingly look low tech as we solve problems by turning to biology and microscopic particles where we once turned to engineering and information technologies. Today a rig churning and cranking to sop up an oil spill mars an ocean landscape; tomorrow genetically engineered micro-organisms will be sent into the ocean to clean up an oil spill invisibly...
...election season began, state-controlled media and pro-Fujimori tabloids relentlessly smeared the three opposition candidates, prompting all but Toledo to fall out of the race. "And election observers had warned that with many of the far-flung election booths under military control, there may be attempts to rig the poll," says McGirk. Now, Toledo, who led his supporters' protest march, plans to go for broke in a runoff vote. But Fujimori doesn't give up easily. After all, a president who, like Yeltsin, once used his military to close down an uncooperative Congress isn't going to be spooked...