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...Dares Whines "All I could make out in their language were the words Mr. Bean. They were laughing at me ... making me feel about three inches tall." That was the lament of Arthur Batchelor, a 20-year-old seaman seized in 2007 by Iranian guards in disputed territorial waters on the Iran-Iraq border and held for 12 days along with 14 other British service personnel. In a newspaper interview, Batchelor also confided that he'd "cried like a baby" during his captivity...
...Through his company Clean Seas Tuna, the former French Legionnaire and seaman has engaged fish-breeding experts to create just the ambience to get southern bluefin feeling frisky...
...book, The Doctors' Case Against the Pill, is widely credited with sparking the women's-health movement of the '70s. Pioneering author-activist Barbara Seaman began to research the high-estrogen birth-control pill after readers of her magazine column complained of painful symptoms. Seaman's book, which exposed side effects, including stroke, heart attack and depression, led to highly publicized Senate hearings and ultimately to mandated warning labels and patient-information inserts. She was 72 and had lung cancer...
...page and hovered in the air. When Johnson turns his attention to a longer narrative his authorial gifts are still very much present, but their luster is dimmed.He remains extremely capable of crafting images that burn themselves into your imagination. His earliest are his best: A just-shipped-over seaman callously shoots a monkey, only to realize that the monkey, in its death throes, is crying. “Its breath came out in sobs, and tears welled out of its eyes when it blinked.” A new recruit’s first experience...
...become such a successful and multidimensional businessman over the years. Have you considered writing a book that discusses your business style and philosophy? I'd buy it! -Sharon Seaman, Las VegasI considered it. I even went as far as to get the check, but we sent it back [to the publishers]. When I started to read the pages, they were looking for dirt and the clich? and I am not interested in that. I could give the next generation some great advice, not that they would take it. I have to qualify that answer by saying, I wouldn't have...