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...equipped with a sophisticated electronics system known as Argos that prints out satellite weather information and provides the boat's precise location in latitude and longitude, relieving the mariner's ancient fear that he is lost. "They don't even need a sextant," harrumphed one old waterfront sage...
Jules Trop's life as he turned 45 was exactly what he wanted it to be. The Miami Beach physician enjoyed a lucrative practice, a waterfront home on a private island in Biscayne Bay and a prized art collection. There was an added fillip: cocaine. Many of his rich patients used and sold the drug, and Trop was sucked in by its siren charms...
...waitress at a seafood restaurant near the waterfront. In 1971, when she was starting out, she reported $1,000 in tips to the IRS, but more experienced waitresses told her she was being "silly." The only response from the IRS, two years later, was to tell her that she also owed $60 in Social Security taxes on the $1,000, plus a $50 late-payment penalty. Says she: "I accepted the tax. But a penalty? Come...
...Edward G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton. A popular and workmanlike 19th century British novelist, Bulwer-Lytton wrote a book, Paul Clifford, that unfortunately began, "It was a dark and stormy night. . ." Among the exquisitely bad sentences sent to the California (zip code: 95192) judges: "Screaming like a banshee, bargaining like a waterfront drug dealer, bleeding like a side of beef in an abattoir, the Chinese sailor croaked out one word: 'Firelight' (a code word? or a dying man's resurrection of a beloved childhood memory?) and fell to the ground, sprawled out like an epileptic lobster, clutching...
...celebration winds up with a midnight fireworks display at Waterfront Park in Boston. All outdoor events are free, while admission to practically every indoor event comes with the onetime purchase of a three-dollar button...