Word: seamans
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...According to Peter Kwong, a professor at Hunter College and an expert on people smuggling, she appeared at a fortuitous time, when ties between China and the U.S. were warming, opening trade, travel and tourist links. "For years the only way out of China was to work as a seaman and then jump ship," says Kwong. "She was here when other means became possible and started by helping friends and family out. Then she recognized the business potential in the trade...
...team was led by Nation editor Priscilla Painton, who edited the package, and our aptly named Special Projects editor Barrett Seaman, a former Navy man, who coordinated logistics and kept us in line. Other key crew members included photographer Diana Walker; Nancy Gibbs, who wrote the overview Essay; and our Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill and Southern bureau chief Timothy Roche, who coordinated the task of scouting out stories...
...Barrett Seaman...
...plans to kill another student? The profiling system, Mosaic, could forever cast an eight-year-old as a troublemaker, even if his crime were only drawing an armed stick figure. Friends would stay away from him, crippling any social life he might have. What a system. DAVID SEAMAN, age 14 Crownsville...
...crowded with hangers-on it resembled the Marx Brothers' stateroom in A Night at the Opera, Marisleysis burnished his image as the heroic fisherman who saved Elian. As it turns out, he's a housecleaner who has been so hungry for the limelight that his cousin, the veteran seaman on the boat, has vowed never to see him again...