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...billion in cargo that each year surges through the 29 Pacific ports had come to a standstill. Some 160 ships loaded with everything from bananas to Nissan 350Zs began stacking up around the harbors of San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Seattle while idling truck drivers were loaded down with wine, apples and cotton#151;the perishable exports of U.S. farmers and companies needing to sell their goods around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoil Ports | 10/5/2002 | See Source »

...left and Ferrante and Houlihan start walking toward the river. “Hey, I was just kidding. It’s that way,” Peljto shouts after them as she directs them toward Johnston Gate. “When’s that fuck truck come?” Ferrante wonders out loud...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game On! | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...idea that, as the new blueprint states, "We cannot let our enemies strike first." Bush makes it clear that the billions of dollars we have spent on armies, navies and aircraft can't protect us anymore. Terrorists and rogue states have learned to attack our weak spots with truck bombs, boat bombs and airliners. Next, he predicts, they will use weapons of mass destruction on us and perhaps on our friends and allies. For all those reasons, a new kind of deterrence is needed. We can no longer rely entirely on "our reactive posture," Bush says. "We must be prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Might Make It Right? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...days is how long a newborn has to spend in Los Angeles to exceed the U.S. government's limit on lifetime acceptable exposure to toxic air pollution, according to a study by the National Environmental Trust 55,553 liters is how much aviation-grade fuel was in a tanker truck headed for the U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, when nine concealed sticks of dynamite were discovered inside by police 25 years is how long a German man lived in an Australian bus shelter before he died last week $9 million is the bounty Osama bin Laden offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

Wamba died of chest injuries on the way to a hospital after a truck collided with the car he was driving from Nairobi to Mombasa...

Author: By Emily M. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Africana.com Editor, 31, Dies | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

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