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Semester at Sea has become a synonym for challenge. Every second was part of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. As a result, I got no more than four hours of sleep a night on the ship and no more than a total of six hours of sleep per port. When I did sleep in port, it was usually during airplane, train or, in certain instances, rickshaw rides--and this time was often used to complete course readings, which averaged over 85 pages...
...addition to trying to complete course readings, write country reports and postcards, organize in-port travel and financial arrangements for the next port, attend diplomatic briefings, factory, orphanage and prison visits, welcome receptions and other course-required field work, student were trying to control their culture shock. Every aspect of our lives was challenged in each country, from our sleep habits to our cultural and historical assumptions to language, religion and social manners...
...their undergraduate years and courses. On the Semester at Sea, every second was a minute. When we returned to the U.S., it was like we had experienced another life and been reborn--culturally, spiritually and educationally. The U.S. seemed so different: when we returned, it felt just like another port...
...Puyallup Indians in Tacoma, Washington, received $66 million and 300 acres of prime land in the port of Tacoma based on an 1854 treaty. The tribe will build a marina and container-shipping facility on the land -- and will celebrate each member's 21st birthday with a $20,000 gift...
DURING A VISIT LAST WEEK TO BEIJING, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT LEONID KRAVCHUK was trying to peddle the 67,000-ton aircraft carrier Varyag, nearing completion in the Ukrainian port of Nikolayev. Selling the carrier may be difficult, though. The Russians, not the Ukrainians, paid for construction of the 922-ft.-long vessel, and can be expected to assert ownership...