Word: skis
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...Ocean to the Black Sea, its peoples mingling happily, trading with each other, watching the same football games, sharing the same Aegean beaches. Hansa towns on the Baltic, once trapped in a frozen Soviet stubble, now bustle with energy; Poles revive Catholic churches in Ireland and Britain; Russians turn ski resorts in the French Alps into little St. Petersburgs...
...From the port of Mytilene, you can see the lights of the Turkish coastal town of Dikili twinkling on the horizon. Further north, where the strait between the two countries narrows to just three miles, traffickers zip immigrants across by Jet Ski. But the usual form of transport is a humble dinghy or decrepit motorboat crammed past capacity, and destined to be abandoned after the crossing - if the boat and its passengers make it. In October, in separate incidents, Greek and Turkish authorities recovered 18 bodies; the E.U. estimates that 3,000 or more people die annually attempting to slip...
...sets over the Aegean. His brother, 29, made his way to Europe via Russia a decade ago, settling in the Netherlands, where he works as a tailor. As he gets ready to sleep on the floor of the ferry, Said shows off his red-and-black Korean-made ski jacket, which he bought in Iran for $60 before hiking over the mountain border to Turkey. There's a rip along one of the sleeves. "But it is warm," Said says with a smile. "Very important to be warm...
...wanted to have a type of tourism that really raised people's understanding," says founder Alfonso Martinez, who dresses in a ski mask and goes by the name Poncho. "So we decided to turn the painful experience all of us here have gone through into a kind of game that teaches something to our fellow Mexicans." Poncho and other ski-masked comrades play polleros, or chicken herders - the human smugglers who guide wannabe migrants over the deserts and rivers into the U.S. Having made the real journey dozens of times to work as a gardener in Nevada, Poncho is well...
Meriweather H. Burruss ’11 is on a tight schedule. Not only does she have a french test, ski team practice, and dinner plans with her dad, but she is also part of FM’s Fast Fashion Challenge...