Word: typhoons
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...staying in a motel across from the gas station, caught the beating on video. In a separate incident, two white officers in Oklahoma were videotaped beating Donald Pete, a black man, across his back and legs as he lay on the ground. EAST ASIA The Wrath of Typhoon Chata'an A tropical storm lashed northern Japan, killing five people and leaving three missing. The deadly weather system had already claimed dozens of lives in the Philippines and Micronesia. Japanese authorities ordered more than 75,000 people to leave their homes north of Tokyo because of high winds, heavy rain, flooding...
...year. That would be catastrophic for countries like Singapore, which has been in a full-blown recession since July, and Taiwan, where economic misery has already reached levels unseen since the early 1970s. A global economic downturn isn't Taiwan's only problem: earlier this month, a record-breaking typhoon swamped Taipei, causing more than $2 billion in damage...
...whole ordeal was a hallucinogenic nightmare. Principal photography took an exhausting 238 days. A typhoon destroyed some of the sets. The director mortgaged his house to cover ballooning costs. He fired his first leading actor (Harvey Keitel) and found that his second (Martin Sheen) had suffered a heart attack. At one point the director told his wife, "I'm thinking of shooting myself." So when it was all over, Francis Ford Coppola figured he had earned the right to a public primal scream. "My film is not a movie," he told the press at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where...
...talks broke down the pilots announced a disruptive ploy called "work to rule," which meant they would do all the safety checks in the pilot's manual, word-by-word, even if it delayed takeoffs and gummed up flight schedules?which is exactly what it did. Days later, a typhoon shut down Chek Lap Kok airport, totally disrupting air travel in and out of Hong Kong, and Cathay announced that the pilots' disruption only made things worse. Then the company lowered the boom, firing 49 pilots without warning?many of them union members, and some of them top organizers...
...ashore: the success of these voyages depended on knowing his place between heaven and earth, on paying homage to the many gods worshiped by people along the way, starting with the constantly burning incense to Chinese sea goddess Tianfei. I jot down a note to myself: when the next typhoon approaches, light incense for Tianfei aboard my junk - and be friendly to any woman in a red dress...