Word: 7th
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...Navy surveillance ship that was harassed while cruising 75 nautical miles off the coast of Hainan. Five Chinese vessels surrounded it and tried to snatch its towed array radar from the water. Gates, responding to the incident, said he "didn't think [the Chinese] are trying to push the 7th Fleet out of that area." But hawks, as Thomas Donnelly of the American Enterprise Institute has said, believe "that is precisely what the Chinese would like...
...together just off the coast of the historic port city of Qingdao, an armada of Chinese naval vessels, accompanied by 21 visiting ships from 14 different foreign Navies - the United States very much included. On April 19, the U.S.S. Fitzgerald, a 6,800 ton missile destroyer with the storied 7th Fleet, cruised into Qingdao harbor, a welcoming phalanx of Chinese sailors standing at attention dockside...
...SEAS has partnered with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies' Brazil Studies Program to organize a field course for SEAS students in Brazil from January 7th to January 21st, 2010. The course will bring together professors and undergraduates from both Harvard and Brazil. The program will include both lectures and hands-on activities, and the web site says activities could include visiting the country’s largest hydroelectric dam or oil exploration and extraction sites. And don't worry if you spent too much time taking Bioengineering to dabble in Portuguese—all the activities will...
...Hampshire senate campaign had left him with a purple standing room ticket, and his post-campaign travels in Cambodia left him unable to claim it. I made my way up parallel to Constitution Avenue, passing streets still populated by more police than civilians and eventually reaching the intersection at 7th Street. The time was 6:35 am. The gate for purple ticket-holders was at Constitution Avenue and 1st Street—just six blocks away. But national guard troops blocked the path, and none could suggest any way to bypass the inaugural parade route they guarded and reach...
...about gathering a group together last week as he became increasingly appalled by the contents of the Senate bill. "I thought, 'Whoa, there needs to be jobs, jobs, jobs,'" Nelson said. He approached his old friend Collins, and the two met over coffee in Nelson's offices on the 7th floor of the Hart Senate Office Building Friday morning. There they agreed to explore interest among "some of our colleagues in a process of scrubbing and changing, reducing the amount of the package so it wouldn't be a runaway tsunami of spending," Nelson said. The two asked for volunteers...