Word: snakes
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...whittled away by fictitious expenses or are nonexistent. But for mind-numbing work like netting fish on a jermal, children are the ideal employees - cheap, docile and easily cowed. "They said I could go home after three months," Andy recalls, clutching his right hand still swollen from a sea snake bite. "But there was no replacement so they said I had to stay...
Meanwhile, the telemarketers' sales pitches, once based mostly on price, have dived deep into the fine print. Says Dwight Paul, 62, a retired airline pilot: "They seem to play on our inability to understand all these ifs, ands or buts. It's like the old snake-oil salesmen who used to come to town...
...Zaki Badawi, principal of London's Muslim College, warns that "the idea that you can cut off the head of al-Qaeda and the body will wither is not going to happen." Ranstorp agrees. Though al-Qaeda's lair in Afghanistan may have been smashed, he says, "The snake has already laid a thousand eggs, which are hatching and slipping off in all directions." Foremost among them Britain...
...Evicted from a trailer park in Salt Lake City for being polygamous, Green moved to the Snake Valley desert in 1995. His family lives in a complex of battered trailers surrounded by wrecked cars and used tires. It is 100 miles to the nearest hospital or grocery store and 55 miles to the nearest blacktop road. At the local school, in Partoun, 80% of the children come from polygamous families. Green's 25 children--one boy died in a house fire in 1997--are between 2 1/2 and 14 years old. For study and play they are divided into five...
...these visuals serve what is essentially a greatest-hits compilation of the book itself, from the snake that winks at Harry in the zoo to the owls that swoop through his school, Hogwarts, dropping mail on the magically gifted boys and girls; from Hogwarts' Great Hall with its soaring night-sky ceiling to the cavernous vaults and Munchkin-size goblins working in Gringotts bank (keep an eye out for Verne Troyer, who played Mini-Me in the 1999 Austin Powers sequel); from the wizard's version of chess, in which queens and knights come alive and beat each other senseless...