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LIKE AN ARMY OF ANTS, HAITIANS BY the hundreds scurry up and down the dusty banks of the Massacre River with their gallon plastic jugs. Their day's work done, they head home carrying vessels filled with a precious pink fluid: gasoline smuggled across the river from the Dominican Republic. For the people of Ouanaminthe in northeastern Haiti, the daily trek has become an economic necessity since last October, when the United Nations reimposed a fuel embargo against the country's recalcitrant military rulers...
...remember: it's all connections. And plastic...
...first saw her on a dawning Saturday morning in the basement of the Science Center. The four plastic bags which she carried with her bulged with items of clothing and personal-care accessories, cans of food and old newspapers. She seemed like an escapee from a nightmare scenario by Maurice Sendak...
...banks. He then merged them, effectively taking control of one-third of the Swiss watch industry, including such famous brands as Omega, Longines, Blancpain, Tissot, Rado and Hamilton. But his big coup was figuring out that a product invented before his arrival could be the high-quality, low-price, plastic quartz watch that would challenge the Japanese at the lower end of the market. The $35-to-$40 Swatch, which reduced by half the usual number of parts by building them directly into the casing on automated assembly lines, was an instant success, enabling the Swiss watchmaking industry to command...
Obviously the Crimson offense also did not mind playing on the prickly plastic...