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...project of the past decade, Oriental Plaza in the city center, was so rife with corruption that an investigation brought down Beijing's party chief and nearly the whole city leadership. The I.O.C., for its part, is still reeling from a vote-buying scandal connected with next year's Salt Lake City Games. "The Olympics are about construction contracts, and this is a perfect marriage of two corrupt organizations," says British author Andrew Jennings, a longtime critic of the Games. But the stadiums, the politics, the potential corruption?all that will play out over the next seven years...
...worked for seven years in Kalimantan as a carpenter. He made decent money, but when he came home for a visit, he learned his son had died. Unwilling to leave his family again, he turned to the unpredictable fishing trade. His dark skin and curly hair dusted with salt from his last trip out to sea, holding the dried stingray tail he uses like sandpaper on the boat's many rough edges, he tells me that the youngest of his three children is only two years old, "so it seems I will work for the rest of my life...
...virtually every other start-up airline with aspirations of major success has done since the U.S. airline industry was deregulated in 1978. After a few months, when JetBlue was still lurking about (and expanding its routes: it now flies to 14 cities from JFK, including Orlando, Seattle, Oakland, Salt Lake City and upstate New York), the rivals just matched JetBlue's fares and waited until the competitive pressure drove JetBlue to close up shop...
...nose is like an appendage.” This was the not-so-bright nurse’s explanation for why, after eight weeks, I still have a swollen nose. “Just like your fingers or your feet, it swells at random, like when you eat salt or absorb sunlight or spend time in humidity...
...wounds. Their names are surrounded by an atmosphere of gossip. What goes on between Pokeweed and Bluebead Lilly? The groundlings-or groundhogs- want to know. What conspiratorial dialogue is whispered between Blue Toad flax and Monkshood? What soliloquies from Trumpet Creeper, from Lady's Thumb, from the grizzled Salt-Marsh Fleabane...