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...fellow marchers. Six days a week, these migrant workers are the city's "domestic helpers" - amahs in Cantonese - earning about $450 a month as maids, nannies and cooks in nearly 200,000 Hong Kong households. On Sundays, thousands of Filipinas take over the commercial hub, the Central district. They swarm sidewalks and elevated walkways to spend their sole day off picnicking, playing cards, singing and swapping gossip. If you linger long enough, as I did my first week, you're sure to be offered tea and snacks...
...Human Swarm...
...extended trap zone on defense throughout the game, sophomore guard Drew Housman found gaps in the zone down low or on the wings to tally a season-high seven assists in addition to 10 points. The Bears opened the second half by stepping up their trap defense to swarm Housman in the back court. Though Housman found the open man often, the trap initially disrupted the rhythm of the Crimson offense. With 7:08 left to play, Brown had capitalized on seven second-half Harvard turnovers to score 12 points off turnovers and narrow the Crimson’s lead...
Layered on this was the sense of a conservative swarm sweeping the country. War supporters and "values voters" were coming out of the woodwork in elections, lining up for The Passion of the Christ and making Fox the sole TV-news success story of the era. They were collecting scalps--Bill Maher, Peter Arnett, Dan Rather--and taking names. They had blogs and remotes and money, and they hated the press. Journalists might not slant stories to show their loyalty, but what was the harm in hanging a little bunting on the screen...
...Palestinians and Israelis, the truce offered a respite from a brutal and inconclusive mess in Gaza. In last week?s offensive, over 30 tanks rolled into Gaza, and Israeli forces used aircraft to fire missiles killing suspected Palestinian commanders. The Palestinians tried to counter this assault by sending a swarm of civilians to the house of a militant commander who was the intended target of Israeli air strikes. Faced with the prospect of killing so many Palestinian civilians, the Israeli planes veered away. At one Israeli checkpoint, a Palestinian grandmother belted with explosives blew herself up and only lightly injured...