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...When Singapore was ejected from Malaysia in 1965, it had no natural resources save for the enterprise of its largely Chinese population and its port's position astride one of the world's major shipping lanes. It possessed little industry or infrastructure besides a naval base and ship-repair facilities left behind by Britain's shrinking navy. Most of the population lived cheek by jowl in ramshackle two-story shophouses or traditional village houses fashioned of rattan and bamboo. It was poorer than Mexico. Today, the city is one of Asia's most modern metropolises, the business district bristling with...
...iceberg and it sank. Get over it." ROBERT BALLARD, American explorer who first discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, downplaying the importance of recent findings that suggest the ship sank faster than previously believed...
...political correctness. As mentioned previously, the lighting of the Christmas tree has been an event for the past 64 years. Moreover, it is the 34th year Nova Scotia has given a tree to Boston out of thanks for the aid Boston provided to Nova Scotia when a munitions ship exploded on Dec. 6, 1917. So when the name change was announced, outrage predictably followed. Donnie Hatt, the logger who chopped down this year’s tree, commented that if he had known the tree would be called a holiday tree, “I’d have...
...only close match played at the second position, De Lierre won the first two games, 9-4, 9-5, but Cornell’s Matthew Serediak staged a comeback, winning the next two games, 9-4, 9-2. De Lierre righted the ship in the last game, clinching the game and the match with a lopsided score of 9-1. At No. 7, junior Mihir Sheth lost the first game, 7-9, but wore down his opponent down the stretch, winning the following three games, 9-5, 9-3, 9-3. At No. 8, senior Ryan Abraham dropped a hard...
...Full Bloomers, a homey reference to floral growing patterns that gets reflected in the book's botanical design. (The book arrived at my office wrapped in a bow and a hand-designed packet of seed from the author's garden attached, though I am sure it does not ship to bookstores this way.) The earliest material, from the mid-'80s, shows Tyler already interested in the dramas of the household. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," provides a snapshot of a neighborly Midwest Saturday night gathering during the mid-'60s. The men, all in one room, swap curse-filled insults...