China Fuel-Price Increases Shift Losses to Fishermen (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) bi13590697 Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Fisherman Cao Jianzhou may abandon the job family has done for more than half a century because rising fuel costs mean he loses money every time he sets out to sea from home northeast of Shanghai

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Survivors a strange land (Republican-American) bi13590697 On a lazy October afternoon, the air crisp autumn, Ler Bweh, a 25-year-old Karen refugee from Burma, lay on stomach apartment, assembling a map-of-the-world puzzle. Slight and almost ethereal, moist caramel skin and a diffident demeanor, Ler Bweh had been a geography teacher the Mae La refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border. This fall, he was resettled to Waterbury, along ..

Couple celebrates 50 years the fishing business (The Farmington Daily Times) bi13590697 NAVAJO DAM ? Heavy trucks rumble past Abe's Motel and Fly Shop as a constant parade of foot traffic brings customers pursuit of bobbers, jerky and other fishing-related necessities

Charlie Brooker on China's Olympics trickery (Guardian Unlimited) bi13590697 Charlie Brooker: What's amazing about China's trickery how ineptly it's been maintained..

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