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...least some of the five were probably staying at the nearby Valencia Motel in Laurel, one of the cheapest motels on a rundown stretch of Route 1. Gail North, a former housekeeper at the motel, did notice that the men were exceedingly private and barely nodded when neighbors said hello. But they never did anything suspicious enough for her to speak up. When the manager at a nearby hotel refused a full refund to one hijacker when he checked out early, the man showed no emotion and didn't make a fuss...
Dingy. Deluged. Decrepit. The International Arrivals Building at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport was so rundown by the 1990s that arriving passengers, not a few of them escaping wretched Third World environments, probably wondered if they had made some cosmic mistake. The IAB was the crown jewel of jet-set travel when it opened in what was then Idlewild Airport in 1957, but three decades later, the country's most important global gateway was one of the worst. Experienced flyers preferred Newark. In New Jersey...
...Following is a quick rundown of what you might expect to bid on at Prince Jefri?s auction, and what you can find at my sidewalk sale next weekend. I think you?ll find, as I have, that sometimes good old American shabby chic (emphasis on shabby) is just as good as fabulously extravagant pieces of art. (Sometimes, of course...
...American global military presence far surpasses that of any other nation with more than 250,000 troops on foreign soil and about 50,000 personnel at sea in foreign waters. Here's a rundown of the largest U.S. overseas troop deployments...
When I was done spying on Joel, I gave him a quick rundown on what I had seen. He was fine about the book proposal. He'd been having second thoughts about it anyway. He had an explanation for the $112.76 that involved the high price of American CDs in Iceland. And he pointed out that he had not added to the snarky e-mail about our co-worker. All he did was read it. Then he told me that for the good stuff I should have spied on his home PC. That's where he does his most interesting...