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...Saturday morning before sunrise the crumbling YMCA on Beatrice Street near the Durban waterfront resounds with music and foot-stomping. Once this South African port city on the Indian Ocean hummed day and night with Zulu stevedores hauling ship cargo. Now in the small hours, the docks are quiet, but inside the Y, isicathamiya choral groups are pulsing. Isicathamiya (i-see-ca-tah-me-ya) encompasses elements of Zulu ritual celebrations and American gospel and ragtime. Opening for concerts in the late evening, the Beatrice Street Y offers a dim, sweltering performance hall one flight up crooked wooden stairs...
...month in charges. Take Koji Hakuta, 28, a truck driver. In his pre-i-mode days, he would deliver a load of pipes from Tokyo to Nagoya and then return empty. But a year ago, his boss launched a site for i-mode that brokers deals between drivers and cargo companies. One night, Hakuta logged on and found a client needing pipes trucked the other way, back to Tokyo. That load earned Hakuta an extra $230. "It's changed the way I work," Hakuta says. The only problem is, he's so hooked on i-mode, browsing sites...
...Boulouris beach near Saint Raphael. "The captain has fled, leaving the boat facing land, the propellors turned so that the boat cannot drift away," said Saint Raphael mayor Georges Ginestat. Rescuers believed the boat had left Greece eight days earlier and had stopped in Turkey. The vessel's human cargo, including 300 children under age 10, were assumed to be potential illegal migrants. None was seriously injured when the boat was beached, though a French official told France Info radio that their physical condition was "deplorable," that they had been forced to stand in the hold in unsantiary conditions...
...spring from which a flood tide of weapons - pistols, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, mortars, even the occasional light artillery piece - flows to every corner of Southeast Asia. The weapons are the lifeblood of the region's criminal activity, supplying robbers in Johor Baharu, pirates preying on the cargo ships that chug through the narrow Strait of Malacca and, yes, traders and buyers say, the region's radical Islamic groups such as Abu Sayyaf, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Laskar Jihad and the Free Aceh Movement...
...Baikonur A Russian cargo vessel launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan docked with the beleaguered Mir, as part of an elaborate plan to destroy the 15-year-old space station. The successful docking of the unmanned Progress M1-5 ship, which is carrying twice its normal fuel cargo, was slightly behind schedule?however, Russian officials still anticipate that Mir will be destroyed, as expected, in early March. If all goes according to plan, the cargo ship will help lower the space station?s altitude, causing it to burn up in the earth?s atmosphere in what Moscow insists will...