Word: harbors
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...district manager, of the agency's enforcement tasks. "The more time we spend out there, gathering intelligence, being part of the community, the more work it generates. And there's no such thing as seasonal crime. It's a year-long event." Engaged in sea trials in thursday Island harbor on a warm Friday morning, the crew of Australian Customs Vessel (ACV) Botany Bay are preparing to hand over their boat to a fresh team of eight officers from Customs' national marine unit. Under Commanding Officer Mark Cummins, Botany Bay's sailors are near the end of a three-week...
Beyond its surface flaws, does Outfoxed harbor an important message? Yes. Fox’s news coverage is rife with fearmongering, mistruths and rampant partisanship. The most powerful sequence of the film is Bill O’Reilly’s on-air interview with Jeremy Glick, the son of a Sept. 11 victim. Glick attempted to explain his opposition to Bush’s post-attack foreign policy; an enraged O’Reilly interrupted and browbeat his guest, even asserting that his father “would not approve of this.” Later...
...finally arrived on Lovell’s Island in Boston Harbor the previous day after taking a bus, three subway lines, and two ferry rides—not to mention waiting for over an hour at Long Wharf in Boston after we had missed the first ferry we were supposed to take. At each leg of the journey, we had to stop and carry all the tents, backpacks, sleeping bags and food we needed for 15 middle schoolers and seven staff members...
...hard to please and even harder to know. But sailing was one of the things John and his father could share, like skiing, fishing, piloting a plane. Richard was all about mastery. It was not enough to guide the boat by sight around the rocks and into the harbor; the goal was to be able to navigate entirely by the charts and compass. It was not young John who was "blindfolded" that day in the boat, but Richard; he sat covered by a tarp reading his maps and instruments by flashlight and calling out a course for John...
...time, several groups of vehicles are on patrol or conducting raids, raising a huge dust cloud and a god-awful din. The base abuts Baghdad's most hostile districts, Khadra, Ghazalia and Abu Ghraib, which makes it a target of almost daily mortar attacks. Those areas are known to harbor al-Qaeda cells and secret bombmaking factories...