Word: creeks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...While that effort is easy to caricature, it's hard to refute. The President's first job may be to send troops to capture Osama bin Laden, but his second - if we're not all going to find ourselves up the economic creek - is to send vacationers to Florida and diners to three-star restaurants...
Looking for a break between adventures? Take time to stroll down the city's central Creek, still its main trade artery. Wooden dhows in a rainbow of colors line the banks, waiting to transport goods across Arabia, India and East Africa as they have done for centuries. Or simply relax on Jumeira Beach. (In Dubai's relaxed Islamic code, bikinis are not a problem if wearers confine themselves to the shoreline...
...timber was 15.2%, against 13.2% for the S&P 500 index. Behind the strong performance: a resilient home-building sector. If housing stays strong, so will timber. As there's no mutual fund that's a pure play on timber, investors need to seek out specific companies, like Plum Creek Timber (PCL, up 10% this year) or Rayonier...
...Before the fleet set off, the men would visit the Jinghai Temple in Taicang to pray to the Taoist goddess known as Tianfei for protection at sea. Spiritually fortified, they boarded their ships, which would head down the Liu Creek to the Yangtze River and eventually into the open seas. With Tianfei's blessing, Zheng He and his men spent two years at sea, landing at present-day Vietnam, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and, eventually, India. Over the next 28 years, Zheng He's flotilla embarked on six other grand voyages. It was an unprecedented massing of naval power. The ships...
...ports that launched Zheng He's fleets, they are long gone, destroyed by five centuries of tumult and neglect. But there are still treasure boats of a sort that ply the Liu Creek, where the armada once assembled. Fan Ping owns one of them, the Sutai Yuyou 503, a small steel ship that doubles as her family's home. It's just 10 m long; the engine a mere 20 h.p. But the 49-year-old matriarch uses the modest craft to ply the waterways for riches. She finds oil spills, sucks them up with a powerful hose and resells...