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...Michael D. Park ’03 has a split-pocket personality. On his left side, he is your average Nokia-less Harvard freshman, with a phone card he often mistakes for his ID. His left pocket is cargo. He is G.I. Mike, with a silver mini army knife and a climbing Carabiner advertising 1-800-MARINES. “I have this whole military motif going on. [I would join the Marines] if there was a war or something.” He pauses. “But not for kicks.” That must be the left...
...could this amphibian, christened the Australian gastric-brooding frog, carry the eggs (and then the tadpoles) inside her stomach without having the offspring digested by stomach acid? To his amazement, Tyler found that the mother frog had the ability to turn off her stomach acids while carrying her precious cargo...
...where the Jarrett and other allied warships can pounce. The recent spike in oil prices has made smuggling more lucrative. During its two months on the gulf assignment, the Jarrett's crew expects to board at least 30 vessels and order violators to friendly ports, where their ships and cargo will be auctioned...
Thought you couldn't get excited about that ship anymore? Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry will prove you wrong. It packs a powerful punch into 25,000 sq. ft.--including artifacts (china, Champagne bottles, the captain's bell, a twisted chandelier), replicas (staterooms, the cargo hold and the grand staircase) and even part of the hull. Letters, photographs and quotations from passengers are poignant. Most chilling: a 9-ft. by 16-ft. sheet of ice. Pressing their hands to it, visitors learn that the salt water that ill-fated night was colder still...
Under cover of night, a white bus marked SHERIFF PRISONER TRANSPORT pulls into a sprawling concrete compound with a cargo of new fish--convict slang for first-timers. The passengers are segregated by iron grilles into minimum-, medium- and maximum-security seating. They cannot see the shadowy outline of the snow-capped Wasatch mountains because the only windows on the bus are narrow and situated high above their heads. The bus lurches to a stop, and an officer cheerily calls out, "Welcome to jail. Does anyone want to be handcuffed...