Word: wanders
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...route through the forest is being carved by 3,400 Gabonese workers and 400 expatriates. Drawn from 19 European construction companies and working for a consortium called Eurotrag, the expats are, for the most part, the kind of tattooed roustabouts who wander from job to job, now building dams in Iran, now forging roads through the Amazon. In Gabon, they live--some with families, some alone--in five camps near the work site. The bases have medical clinics, schools and swimming pools; fresh vegetables, meat and delicacies are flown...
...account, by political nincompoops who never grasped what policy was all about. He has hardly met another presidential aide he did not disdain. He labored unsuccessfully to educate a dotty President in the fundamentals of economics, only to have poor Ronald Reagan ignore "the palpable, relevant facts" and wander in circles...
...would someone in full clown regalia wander--like a child into a war zone--through the streets of a toxic inner city? Is he on a quest for instant martyrdom? No. He's Tommy Johnson, an ex-drug dealer now known as Tommy the Hip-Hop Clown, and he's recruiting some of the best local talent of South Central Los Angeles to help create a frenetic, feel-good style of dance called clowning. Missionaries of optimism, they go about, one clowner says, "making smiles where there were no smiles, laughter where there was no laughter," and turning the meanest...
...modesty belies a confident charm: Pasternack is a pale and lanky guy and exudes the kind of disaffected cool that tags him as a hipster. In conversation, however, he is warm and friendly, if a bit distracted. His eyes, like his words, tend to wander with restless attention...
Before you leave U Street, take some time to wander. You might stumble across something unexpected, like a 32-ft. Duke Ellington mural, or eye-catching, like the glassware in Go Mama Go!, at 1809 14th Street. In fact, more than 100 businesses have opened during the past two years--a sure sign that U is back...