Word: welder
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...thin cotton mask and makeshift welder's goggles, Dr. Li Li guards China's shifting front line against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The young doctor oversees a new fever ward at the medical clinic in Biange township in central China's largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with...
After making hasty introductions, Howe arranged for the chop shop owner to remove the lock from the truck with an arc welder. In return, Howe provided him two bottles of whiskey...
...Dallas, where the problem continues to worsen, the homeless complain of cops delivering wake-up calls from their car loudspeakers by blaring "Wake up, crackheads!" and handing out vagrancy tickets. "It doesn't make you want to go and rejoin society," says Gary Jones, 36, a laid-off welder. "What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there...
...advising patients to vote for her. On the other side, Citizens for an Independent Court, a union-and lawyer-backed political action committee, has attacked Stratton with an ad that contrasts men laughing in a limousine--depicted as "their side"--with a family at a picnic table and a welder at work--described as "our side." The most brazen of the ads, run by a group calling itself Competition Ohio but bankrolled by AT&T, accuses local phone provider SBC Ameritech of doubling rates and taking away consumer choice and suggests that a Stratton victory would mean lower phone bills...
...high school he was a top football player, says James Johnson, an alumnus of the school who worked with the booster club. "I remember him as a good team player." After graduating in 1978, Williams enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard, working as a carpenter and welder in a unit that repaired buildings. Three years later, he married his high school sweetheart, Carol Kaglear, and they had a son, Lindbergh, whom he liked to show off to co-workers. "He had a million-dollar smile and was very outgoing," says Rafael Miranda, Muhammad's commander at the time...