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...asked him to tell them where the rest of the crew were," recounts the chemical tanker's captain at the time, Surahmat Johar. "I was sleeping in my cabin. All of us were then gathered in one room. They tied our hands tight behind our backs with a white, plastic wire?the kind that tightens even harder if you try to loosen it." Concerned that the 3,900-ton vessel would have no one at the helm, Surahmat pleaded to be allowed onto the bridge. "But they told me to shut up, saying, 'Don't worry, our commander is fully...
...With its corrugated iron roofing, bare concrete floors, and red plastic tables and chairs, there's little to distinguish the coffee shop that regulars call "HQ" from other similar establishments on Indonesia's Batam Island. But this is not just another place to eat noodles and drink beer. Batam is only a 15-minute ferry ride away from Singapore, the world's busiest port, and "HQ" is the rendezvous for scores of Indonesian sailors looking for work. Legitimate jobs are hard to come by, however, and that's why, says a thin, short man who calls himself Nurdin...
Upon searching the room, HUPD confiscated 45 clear plastic bags containing herb-like substances which the report described as marijuana and psilocybin; a blue purse holding “an off-white waxy substance that was in flakes and a solid yellow chunk of an unknown substance”; a pipe; a 200-gram weight and scale; a large black hunting knife and a small box of rolling papers...
...Lego, the Danish icon of the toy industry? Maybe not: sales have dropped between 25% and 30% since 2002, and losses for 2004 (including book-value declines) will be some $300 million. Lego is being battered from all sides. Today's children increasingly prefer Xboxes to plastic blocks; sales in Japan and the U.S. have been unexpectedly sluggish; and the company suffers from overcapacity in a low-growth industry. Trying to refocus on its core business, the 72-year-old company is even considering selling such assets as the Legoland parks. CEO Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, grandson of Lego's founder...
...Science B-29: “Human Evolution and Behavior,” which usually goes by the better-known moniker “Sex.” To make matters even more awkward, we are talking about Kinsey, a movie that, at one point features a forty-foot plastic penis...