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...While the rumor mill churned along (would he stay or would he go?) media outlets had a field day with "unconfirmed reports." But for anyone eager to read the political tealeaves, there?s been no shortage of (very reliable) hints: Recent financial disclosures, for example, reveal a barren war chest - not exactly business as usual for a man who raised nearly $1 million in the comparable period before his last election, and who spent a robust $8 million on his bitterly contested 1996 campaign. Helms? wife Dorothy is on the record as "adamantly" opposing another run. He even...
...author suggests they were presented to the Cochin Raja by the Chinese traders who were accompanied by Ma Huan, the treasure ship's chronicler, and an unnamed ambassador (probably Zheng He). The tiles, he claims, were meant for the Raja's palace, but some clever Jewish merchants spread the rumor that Chinese use cow's blood to make porcelain and the King, a devout Hindu, had to give them up - to the Jewish merchants...
Another piece of news for the office rumor mill erupted a few days later, when Uch, Candice, Cathy and a few other friends and I gathered for a poolside toga party. Near the end I stupidly agreed to put a pair of handcuffs on with Uch for a silly picture. Candice pushed me in the pool, but Cathy failed to push Uch in the pool with me—and the handcuffs bent and broke against my skin. After I barely avoided getting hit by Cathy as Uch threw her in the pool, I looked down and saw a deep...
...didn't work." Another pilot on a layover in Los Angeles got the bad news on a 2 a.m. wake-up call. "They just started picking selected people," Findlay says, "so that when the word goes around to other pilots, it would instill fear in them." (Among pilots, a rumor is spreading of a second list of 118 names.) The pilots call Cathay's tactics union busting. Hong Kong's wary travelers call it just another summer...
...aggressively defensive. Following the WHO conference, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, which represents 18 carriers, held a closed-door meeting on DVT in Kuala Lumpur. Director general Richard Strickland cited a "wide gap" between anecdotes and the evidence and said the organization wants to "sift speculation and rumor from fact." Strickland stressed his members would follow the who's eventual recommendations. Until then, "our first priority is passenger well-being, our second is to prevent unnecessary alarm and vexatious litigation." Says AAPA spokesman Carlos Chua: "There is no definite correlation between DVT and flying. My suspicion is that there...