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...Hong Kong is not the first city to have green ships. Captain Cook Cruises in Sydney's harbor has been running a hybrid Solar Sailor ship since 2000. In Berlin, the mayor christened a solar ferry in July, and Shanghai will have its own Solar Sailor ferry by the start of the 2010 World Expo. Founded in 1999, the company's innovative designs won the Australian Design Award of the Year, and Solar Sailor became the first Australian company recognized by the prestigious Tech Museum Awards. The inspiration for the solar sails, says Robert Dane, CEO of Solar Sailor...
...other doubles action, junior captain Samantha Rosekrans paired up with freshman Hideko Tachibana...
...really happy with our performance this weekend,” women’s captain Liz Powers said. “The conditions we faced were different than usual, as we were sailing in a river that went out to the ocean. We therefore had to deal with currents, and a lot of strategy was used to determine how best to sail in the current while dealing with the shifty winds...
...Junior captain skipper Alan Palmer led Harvard’s efforts with a fifth place showing in the A-division, where the crewing duties were shared among senior Winston Yan, junior Grace Charles and senior Michelle Konstadt...
...Force Captain Matthew Miller wrote about the challenges of flying in Afghanistan after returning from a four-month deployment there in 2007. His medevac unit, from Georgia's Moody Air Force Base, had lost three helicopters and seven crew members in the two wars. Enemy fire had been a factor in none of the Afghan crashes. "In Iraq, helicopter pilots face a greater prospect of being shot at by ground fire," Miller wrote. "In Afghanistan, the greatest threat is the terrain." He described flying in Afghanistan as "'graduate level' piloting more challenging than cruising over the flatlands of Iraq...