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...hatch" design that many shipyards simply weren't equipped to produce. The ships will carry lumber and paper to the Far East and return filled with cars, snowmobiles and industrial equipment. The built-in retractable cranes will allow the ships to load and unload quickly, even at ports with inferior or damaged equipment. Other design elements will make the ships sail faster than most, in part by allowing them to remain at high speed while flushing their bilges at sea, a health measure required by many ports...
...male ancestor. (Can't an action hero ever have a mother fixation?) Atlantis adroitly mixes 2-D and 3-D animation but is short on emotional heft and depth. It would be Disney's rotten luck this summer if its big-budget cartoon loses the tween market to an inferior live-action film with a boy-pleasing secret ingredient. Tomb Raider is Atlantis...
...This discrepancy did not go unnoticed by admissions officers, who reported in 1948 that "our scholarship policy opens the door of opportunity at Harvard to those boys of inferior economic status who are at the very top in academic performance...
...Investigators in Florida, which is leading the inquiry on behalf of all 50 state attorneys general, believe that Ford and Firestone share blame. Says attorney general Bob Butterworth: "If they already knew they had these problems, why did they put an inferior tire on this vehicle? The problem you have here is lawyers and the marketing department overruled the safety recommendations of engineers...
...Philip Kuhn, a Harvard historian. "They held out for a while and then said the hell with it." That's a piece of history unlikely to be portrayed on film. Beijing even plans to promote the film abroad. "We must let foreigners know that China's hero is not inferior to 007," declares Wang Gengnian, vice director of China's Film Bureau...