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...Antarctic, during which they performed scientific experiments for various organizations and ran a charter boat service to the South Pacific (several team members, including Burton, also got married), Transglobe proceeded by ship toward its next destination, the North Pole. Fiennes and Burton navigated the Yukon River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
...swim across the river, can now cross at El Paso by wading through knee-deep water. Once on the other side, they dash into town and quickly melt into the general population. In other places the immigrants must still swim, row boats or paddle across the river in rubber inner tubes. Their greatest worry is always the border agents patrolling in vans, helicopters and light aircraft...
...have a government of faceless, anonymous individuals, dictating irrational, unworkable and sometimes insane policies that no one is really responsible for. And a "loyal opposition" in Congress all for eager to rubber-stamp these policies, as long as they can sign their names to those bills that represent pork barrel to their constituents, and support the rest...anonymously. Perhaps the next step will be a government of total anonymity, for which voters will select nameless candidates--Brand A or Brand B--on the basis of unattributed empty slogans and hollow promises, and anonymous records of supporting shameful legislation. The identities...
...houses that dominated the East Cambridge economy 50 years ago are gone. "It used to be that the whistle would blow at noon and everybody on the block would go home to lunch and the whistle blow at one and everybody would come back [to work]" says DiDomenico American Rubber. I ever Brothers and Squire Meatpacking no longer employ thousands of Easties. The result is that more of the residents work outside the area...
...Yeah," he says as his face lights up. "Remember when we pulled the fence down at People's Park and a fleet of cop cars screeched up and started shooting rubber bullets at us?" He notices I'm staring out the window...