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...When I got to the river, the women’s A division had just finished a race, so all the boats were on the dock and the B-division sailors were hopping in. Once the boats left the dock, the first thing I saw was one boat tip nearly all the way over. The two women in it scrambled to the other side of the boat and pulled it back upright. Close call, I thought. Actually, that’s the way sailing goes. Now I understand why the team lifts twice a week...
...river in the Mekong Delta knew full well that the waterway was dead. They had complained for years that industrial waste discharged into the Thi Vai had poisoned their wells, killed all the fish and was making them sick. Yet it wasn't until cargo companies refused to dock at the river's main port - saying that the toxic brew was eating through the ships' hulls - that Vietnam officials were willing to get tough on polluters...
...Paris courtroom last week, 42 officials went on trial for taking millions in kickbacks and organizing huge arms commissions from the Angolan government during the mid-1990s. In the dock were such big names as Charles Pasqua, a former French Interior Minister; Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of the late French President François Mitterrand; and Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak, who is currently a candidate for mayor of Jerusalem. The group is charged with having supplied almost $800 million worth of arms to Angolan President José Eduardo Dos Santos, including 12 helicopters, 6 naval vessels...
Sail Away. Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2 will depart her dock on New York City's West Side at 5 p.m. on Oct. 16 to make her final transatlantic voyage to England. Due to become a floating hotel in Dubai, she will meet her sister ship, Cunard's ocean liner Queen Mary 2, at the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor at 6:15 p.m. After a send off by tugboats and NYC Fire Department boats, the two ships will sail to England in tandem. Good viewing points are along Hudson River Park and Battery Park...
...Jack was really on the Titanic. But before that movie there was A Night to Remember. The Unsinkable Molly Brown was a Broadway play. The Titanic has woven itself into modern culture. When Bob Ballard found it 20 years ago, it was front page news. When we left the dock, we believed mostly what we saw in the film because it was the conventional wisdom of the day. We didn't know any better...