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...more than 5,000 20-ft.-long containers--that many consider the future of commercial-cargo shipping. The canal's Old World competitor, Egypt's Suez Canal, can already accommodate the bigger vessels. A resized Panama Canal could be a boon to U.S. ports on the Gulf and East coasts, which currently handle post-Panamax cargo directly to and from Asia only via the lengthier Suez route. Says Gary LaGrange, CEO of the Port of New Orleans: "This will be monumental for maritime trade on the Gulf Coast...
...Bush-bashing is just one part of an election very much defined by U.S.-related issues. One is whether Ecuador will keep letting the U.S. use the Manta air base on the Pacific coast for drug surveillance flights - or if Ecuador will even continue to assist Washington's drug war, particularly the multibillion-dollar Plan Colombia. (Correa says he would not renew the Manta treaty when it expires...
...long ago, in a land far, far away… The Harvard men’s water polo team traveled coast-to-coast yesterday, trading the shifty New England weather for the warm southern California coast. This was no vacation, however; the Crimson players were on official business. Harvard faced the University of La Verne in a tightly contested match-up. A full 31 minutes of play could not separate the two teams. With only seconds left on the clock, the game-winner finally came—for ULV— dropping the Crimson, 8-7. For the last...
...tonight in New Orleans at a reception for the national party, to be held at a club with a 30th-floor view of the Mississippi River. While in Louisiana, he was also receiving briefings from the Army Corps of Engineers and from Don Powell, the federal coordinator of Gulf Coast reconstruction, and touring a barge company by the Port of New Orleans...
From plantations in the South, to refuge in British-held Nova Scotia after the war, and finally over to the newly-created territory of Sierra Leone on the African coast, these slaves had navigated not only a formidable distance, but also the tangled web of race politics in the 18th-century Atlantic world...