Word: transporters
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...fundamentalist Islamic fighters who have taken control of much of Afghanistan in the past year. Sources have told TIME the military aid either comes directly from Russia or is being supplied by former Soviet Central Asian republics with Moscow's blessing. The equipment is loaded onto Afghan heavy-transport planes in Kulyab for the trip south. Last week half a dozen such Russian-built transports were sitting on the tarmac in Kulyab, some of them painted in camouflage. Much of the aid is going to a man who used to be the Soviet army's most feared adversary in Afghanistan...
...even cross-country travelers can find themselves going hungry. First the airlines removed the flavor from chicken a la king, then they jettisoned the chicken altogether. Between 1992 and 1995 the airlines shaved $368 million off costs by cutting meal service, according to the Airport Transport Association. A few years ago, American found that removing a single olive per salad could save $100,000. "My wife and I bring our own food on board," says Martin Deutsch, editor at large for Travel Agent magazine. "Even on first class...
...argument that Evita was merely a filter or receptacle for the struggles and dreams of the masses pervades Santa Evita, making the tale of her corpse's adventures richly ironic. Several of the military officers and other characters responsible for the transport or maintenance of her body fall deeply in love with her, until their obsession controls their lives. They speak of Evita as if she were living, and many believe that she has mystical powers. They avoid saying her name, instead referring to her as "Person," "the Deceased," or "that woman." She is both a curse and blessing...
...Socialist governments, of course, including the present one. But 1996 was their wake-up year, as the country neared bankruptcy and more than a dozen banks were closed. The Socialists, led by Zhan Videnov, a former regional chief of the Communist Youth, more than doubled energy prices and public transport fares. The central bank then boosted interest rates to 300% in an attempt to choke off inflation. An editorial last week in the newspaper Trud supplied what could have served as a straight line for Marie Antoinette: "Bread is becoming a luxury...
...channel can be used to transport proteins backwards from the endoplasmic reticulum into the cytosol, which is, of course the retrograde direction of what proteins would normally do," Rapoport said...