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...someone whose career has supposedly sunk to the bottom of the pop culture septic tank, Mariah Carey isn’t doing too badly. Sure, she got very publicly dropped from an extremely lucrative record deal signed just last April, and she’s still probably recovering from the “exhaustion” which put her in the hospital last summer. Her most recent album, released on Sept. 11, sold just 478,000 copies and cost her record company $10 million. And if that weren’t bad enough, A Walk to Remember, the highly forgettable...
...common crusade known as promotoras. With help from government agencies like Mexico's Health and Development Federation, they are creating community banks and lending trees for small businesses; they circulate in poor neighborhoods like Avon ladies, teaching health care and selling condoms; they even dig trenches for colonia septic systems...
Apparently, I didn't suffer from septic shock and intoxicate the entire boat. On May 7 we won the B-League repechage, opening water on Pforzheimer halfway through the race and holding on to finish half a boat-length ahead of PfoHo. It was a smooth, intense race, and I'm positive my jump into the Charles inspired my teammates...
With more city boys trying to become ranchers, farm agents say, lectures are jammed, even on workdays. Texas A&M University, bombarded with questions by first-time ranchers, just launched an UrbanRancher website to teach the basics from septic tanks to wildlife feeding. "A lot of county agents are getting asked how many cattle they can raise on 10 to 20 acres. The answer is none. It's too small," says Bob Brown, head of A&M's department of wildlife and fisheries sciences. "They want fences 10 feet to 12 feet high to keep wildlife...
...customs cops on the Miami River seized a record 7,200 lbs. of cocaine, most from Haitian ships, four times as much as in the previous year. Haiti's imaginative narco welders have forced an inspection revolution. Customs teams often spend days dismantling keels, engine rooms and even onboard septic tanks and voodoo shrines that have yielded as much as 1,100 lbs. of coke at a time. "We've never seen the Colombians use a vessel's structure this way," says Miami customs supervisor Tom Stefanello over the racket of his agents' riveters...