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...what's jokingly called a biyuntao--"avoid Olympics package"--which rhymes with the Chinese word for condom. Others, including huge numbers of migrant workers, have been forced out. A group of builders from Sichuan who lived in our courtyard while refurbishing the neighborhood left recently, taking their coal cooking stove and pet kitten with them. A few blocks away, restaurant owner Liu Ruilin complains that some of his best customers are gone. "I thought the Olympics were going to be good for business," he says. "But lots of outsiders are leaving...
...This is Hurricane Preparedness Week, and although Florida Governor Charlie Crist is touring the peninsula, urging folks to stock up on Spam in case a big one knocks out the electric stove, you'd be hard-pressed to find Miamians shaking in their flip-flops. The bottom line for civilians like me is that while we appreciate the climatologists' efforts, these long-term forecasts have often ended up causing more confusion or complacency than preparedness. And now, to make the outlook even cloudier, we have a new study debunking the idea that global warming is intensifying hurricane activity - a study...
...wrecked when we get back from patrol that it does a world of good to kick back and eat a doughnut - it's almost like normal life," says Private Matt Collins, as he fries a fresh batch in an empty artillery can. The makeshift stove is fueled with wood salvaged from packing crates. Bread rolls stuffed with canned cheese and chilies are laid out on a stretcher to rise. The flour is sifted through a mosquito net. Once the doughnuts are done the bread rolls will be next; they are closed in a metal box that once held illumination rounds...
...started drinking when I was ten. There's a scene in the book where I talk about discovering the booze in the cupboard underneath the stove... It, too, functioned very briefly as a mood stabilizer... It elevated my mood, and just made me feel like I was flying. Instead of feeling like I was going up and down and up and down, there were no more crashes. For a few hours at a time, I wasn't terrified, I wasn't anxious - I was just high as a kite. Of course, like any other alcoholic, the reasons...
...gaunt refugee bringing home live chickens for the Sabbath meal; David Ben-Gurion looking like a defiant Moses. Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir, Ariel Sharon - Rubinger photographed them all in unguarded moments, stripped of the trappings of high office. He catches Meir worrying about a pot on the stove; Menachem Begin on an airplane, bending over to help his wife put on her shoe; the great warrior Dayan gazing at his formidable father Shmuel with a mixture of reverence and rebellion...