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...even after a bit of trouble in the early races. “It was disappointing to see how we started the regatta, but we rallied pretty well on Saturday afternoon and Sunday,” Kovacs said. “Third was a decent finish, especially considering this fleet was arguably more competitive than the fleet we see at the national championship.” In B-division, Harvard didn’t fare as well behind the efforts of juniors Jon Garrity and Kerry Anne Bradford and sophomores Drew Robb and Michelle Konstadt. Garrity and Robb shared skipper...
...screen. Its backers, like Dan McCrea, head of the Florida Voters Coalition, insist bills like this are necessary to get states to move to optical scanning, even if they are understandably reluctant to trash their investments in DRE. McCrea calls that foot-dragging the electoral equivalent of "buying a fleet of Pintos whose gas tanks you later find out blow up on you, but insisting you're going to keep using them because you spent all that money on them...
...Locals call the U.S. vessels moored on the edge of the harbor - three support tankers and a scouting boat - "the ghost ships." Once part of the James River Reserve Fleet standing ready to respond to a national emergency, the 12,000-ton behemoths were decommissioned in the 1980s and 1990s and tugged across the Atlantic after a Hartlepool ship-breaking firm, Able UK, won the contract to recycle their steel, promising to create 1,500 jobs...
...citing concerns that the work would otherwise go to unregulated docks in the developing world - that the council relented. In late October, it granted Able UK permission to recycle the ships, but the delay has cost the firm a contract for a further nine James River Fleet vessels, and Friends of the Earth is considering appealing the decision on the remaining four...
...content with the usual clunky limousines, the Conrad Bangkok, tel: (66-2) 690 9999, recently added a mean-looking Mercedes-Benz SLK 200 sports roadster to its fleet. But given the Thai capital's notorious traffic jams, we're left wondering just how frequently that 1.8-liter supercharged four-cylinder engine will be put to the test. It's far smarter to opt for the hotel's other new transport option: scooter taxis. These zippy little Platinum Jungle scooters will get you to your destination about 30% quicker than a regular cab, the hotel p.r. says. Sure, the 150cc motor...