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...percent of New England’s produce comes through Chelsea. The end of summer means the end of produce-growing season in New England, so for the next six months, Boston will survive thanks to farmers in California and Mexico, New Zealand and Florida. Not to mention the truck drivers, merchant marines, train workers, and airplane pilots that bring all of it here. I came across several large airline cargo containers from overseas: our dinners have clearly become globalized...
...hasn't officially given the go-ahead for the jet, which would start flying in 2008. But gung-ho Boeing executives have outlined to TIME their plans to launch the 7E7 and to build it in a revolutionary way. Rather than send parts to the final assembly site by truck and train for piecemeal manufacturing, Boeing's contractors will build complete component systems (a fully wired wing, say) to be snapped together at final assembly. To speed the process, Boeing will build three 747s to haul the components. "Instead of huge sections of the 7E7 bobbing around the ocean...
...Adaptability is the survival kit of illegal ?migr?s. The boys must be ready to change clothes, from peasant robes in Pakistan to business shirts in Iran to T shirts and jeans in Europe. They will have to travel by foot, bus, truck, ship?never knowing how long the trek will last or if they'll be shot, arrested or suffocated en route?and speed-learn the rudiments of new languages in the babel of countries they pass through. There's a sweet, sad scene in which Jamal teaches Enayat a few English words (snow, mountain) that would be of little...
...cameras in the IOP were connected to the production truck, which then sent the footage to the neighboring satellite truck that broadcast the signal...
...behind a decent outcome. But the administration's message is facing a daily battering from events on the ground. In the past eight days alone, 10 U.S. soldiers have been killed in a number of separate ambushes; mortar shells were fired on Iraq's foreign ministry in Baghdad; a truck bomb killed nine people at an Iraqi police station in the capital; a car bomb killed another nine people at a hotel used by Iraqi Governing Council and coalition officials; a Spanish intelligence official was assassinated outside his residence; and a car bomb was detonated at the Turkish embassy...