Word: gondola
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...most rekindled craftsmanship across Europe is the growing market for something distinctive in a world of sameness. It is this, together with newfound respect for those who made great works without great machines, that has Thom Price, a 31-year-old American, working in a squero, a traditional Venetian gondola workshop. Or that finds Australian enologist David Baverstock producing award-winning wines from old grape varieties found only in Portugal...
...found absolutely nothing. Not even under "boats" was there any hint of gondolas. So he began wandering around the city. He eventually stumbled across the Squero San Trovaso, and with the help of a translator told the men working there that he had experience building wooden boats and that he'd like to learn how to make a gondola. The craftsmen informed this smart American kid that they didn't have time for on-the-job training. "Their attitude was that if I had graduated from college, I obviously didn't know how to work with my hands," recalls Price...
...Thompson: In recent years, top officers have been taking less individual responsibility for disasters on their watch - with the USS Cole, for example, or when the Marines hit the ski gondola in Italy - but this may force the services to take another look at culpability. At this point, we know that Commander Waddle's Navy career is over, along with those of several of his subordinates. The only question now is whether they'll face court-martial proceedings. We'll have to keep watching to find out - it's too early to say just...
...Following the incident in Italy a few years ago where U.S. flyers caused a number of deaths when they accidentally brought down a gondola ski lift, has the U.S. learned anything about damage control in these situations...
...Both this case and the gondola case were situations where the pilot, or the skipper, screwed up big time. Even if they did nothing legally wrong, they can't escape the fact that people died. So the U.S. has been very quick to apologize profusely at an official level. And it's quite likely they'll accede to the Japanese request that they salvage the fishing vessel, if it's feasible at that depth. If the bodies are down there, it's the least they...