Word: taxiing
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...that message gets back to Europe, it will help those like Buncha Intiapat, 30, a motorcycle-taxi driver in Patong. On Dec. 26 he watched the wall of water advance on the beach. Instinct told him to ride his bike quickly away to safety. Four of his friends died, and he watched children scrambling and screaming before they were swallowed by the waves. In the days after the tsunami, Buncha says, he had considered moving back home to the northeast of Thailand, as many of his friends did. But now, as each day brings the opening of a new business...
...According to prosecutors, the captured agent told how he and five other men were waiting for Kim when he left the restaurant after lunch. When the pastor got in the front seat of a taxi, two of them allegedly jumped in the back and forced the cabbie to drive off. "Who are you guys? Where are you taking me?" the pastor demanded to know. That night, they are believed to have taken him to North Korea...
...LATHAM BREAKS TAXI DRIVER'S ARM. "I turned and chased and tackled him from behind, Johnny Raper style, and he hit the deck." "I've grown up in the western suburbs of Sydney." All my life. "Well, every now and then you've got to hold your hands up to defend yourself." Whack...
...Roosters. "The new divide is between the true believers who want modern Labor to stand up and fight for our policy beliefs and the machine men, with their over-reliance on polls, spin doctors, the daily media cycle and a command-and-control style of politics." Third Way. "The taxi driver was trying to steal my property, and Kim Beazley's trying to steal the Labor leadership off Simon Crean - and I'm happy to tackle them both...
...sets up an ad hoc darkroom in the San Francisco airport. A charter pilot agrees to fly the wet negatives to fog-bound Chicago, where LIFE's photo editor has arrived from New York to pick them up. He selects the photos by using the window of his taxi as a light box and delivers them to the printer in time for the issue...