Word: subways
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...that had been made in his name. And he scored, in part by paying $25 to an online data broker--an information mercenary who may not care whether you're trying to track down a long-lost cousin or steal her identity. Johnson went so far as taking the subway to the suspect's address to match his name to an apartment number, noting there were flower boxes in his windows. "I felt like Angela Lansbury," he says...
...early January, two days into the new year, I stopped at Subway at 8 p.m. to buy a sandwich. The restaurant was empty and the fluorescent lights and yellow paint were about the same shade of somber. A woman, apron-clad, emerged from the back and took my order without looking at me. Turkey sub, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise. She removed a pre-sliced roll from a large plastic container and put it down on the white counter length cutting board before her. Next she took the turkey, already portioned out and wrapped in plastic, because every Subway sub needs...
...possessions and material gain.” Dewey felt that a society runs into all sorts of problems when one’s sense of individuality and one’s job become the same thing. If you really want to understand Dewey’s concerns, go to Subway and carefully watch seven dollars an hour make your sandwich. Then, once your sandwich has been put in the plastic bag, think about how different you and the Subway employee are. Depending on whether you’d rather lose your appetite or vomit, do this before or after you?...
Even by the dull standards of home videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes...
...Since 1997, the group has been conducting detailed surveillance of possible targets in Singapore, mostly U.S.-related, according to the police. The principal target appears to have been a shuttle bus that conveys visiting U.S. naval personnel between Sembawang Wharf and the Yishun subway station. A second plan was to allegedly bomb U.S. naval vessels in Singapore waters. Other members of the group had apparently wanted to attack U.S. airplanes at a Singapore air base...