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...instead of an oil slick, the tide threw a more bountiful harvest their way - 40 metal shipping containers packed with everything from BMW motorbikes to bags of dog food and luxury cosmetics. Police were almost powerless to stop thousands of would-be salvagers hauling their beach booty away. Under British law, salvagers can take goods from a wreck for safekeeping, if they declare their finds to the authorities and are willing to eventually hand them back to the rightful owners...
...Shawn, graduating has had immediate benefits. He went to the high school to request an early copy of his diploma so he could show it off at Christmas. And his parents threw him a graduation party at Shelbyville Community Church, where he landed not only about $350 in gifts, but also a promise from his dad to pick up half the car payments on Shawn's '99 Grand Prix GT. Even better was the fact that Shawn got hired to lay cable with his father and older brother, at a pay rate - $15 an hour - that was much higher than...
...Katie Couric's Holly Golightly party at Tiffany's. This past Sunday, the CBS news anchor donned a Holly-style frock and long black gloves and threw herself a 50th birthday party at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship store. (Proceeds to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance...
...catastrophic war is unlikely, the world remains a dangerous place - made more dangerous by the condition of its prime power. The U.S. is today what Britain was during the first globalization: the anchor of the liberal world order. Those who rightly railed against the U.S. when it threw its weight around and treated its partners with contempt should now mull the question: Who is going to take care of the world's political business? China, Russia or the E.U.? Hardly...
...just threw my cell phone at them and ran the opposite way,” the victim wrote...