Word: boated
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...33rd International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, Switzerland, at which 1,000 new products from 42 countries vied for attention, creative innovations stood side by side with wacky eccentricities. The grand prize was awarded, boringly, to a device that cleans boat hulls, while the audience prize went to the inventor of a motorcycle air bag. But what other gadgeteers attracted stares (and maybe a few snickers)? A quick peek...
...Costa Rica. Involved were 29 pacifist Americans and 16 journalists. The incident began when members of Witness for Peace, a group established in North Carolina, set sail from the Nicaraguan town of San Carlos, about 130 miles southeast of the capital, Managua. The group's aim: to travel by boat along the San Juan River, which is hotly contested by contra and Sandinista forces...
...mountainous "bandit country" in the state of Veracruz, 300 miles southeast of Mexico City. Nearing the banks of the Coachapa River in predawn darkness, the government force surprised a gang of some 50 drug traffickers in the act of loading 1,300 lbs. of marijuana onto a boat. The police had hardly shouted a warning when the smugglers opened fire...
...wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo and Omo laundry detergent, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5¢ each. Hon's first stop of the day is Xa Nhon village, where he ties up and makes deliveries to half a dozen small shops. The local farmers may be poor, but they have the same needs and desires as middle-class urbanites, and Hon's business is growing. He sells hundreds of thousands of soap and shampoo packets a month, enough...
Sounds like a party boat for commitment-phobes? It may be. Rather than emphasize the shipboard experience, Hadji-Ioannou says he wants to make the glamorous ports of the French and Italian Riviera the main attraction. Beginning May 6 and at $57 a night per person, cruisers will be allowed to hop off the 4,007-ton easyCruiseOne (there is no Two at this point) at any harbor, have an afternoon of fun ashore and then party the night away before setting sail for the next destination. The catch? Passengers must book at least two nights, and there...