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...What Churchill offers is a sea-and-land short cut for ships carrying goods along a north-south axis between Europe and the Americas. Cargo from, say, Murmansk, Russia, can be unloaded at the port and carried by rail to Canada, midwestern U.S. states or even Mexico. The port is already ice-free five months of the year, and with some judicious ice- breaking that season could be extended by a full 30 days on either end. Broe, who happens to own North America's largest privately held railway, profits from both legs of the journey. "No one has ever...
...bright, and the weather’s breezy,” sings the cast with their high-heeled legs kicking and glittery bosoms swinging. “If you’re feeling sick, lean over the rail, and throw yourself off, if you went to Yale...
...levees are being reconsidered, the schools reimagined, the whole region rethought, with ideas for riverfront parks, light-rail systems and everything short of whirlycopters filling the sky. Some of it may even happen. Not all the plans mesh, and most of them require dollars that may not all materialize, but in a city that has suffered like this one, the power of this wholesale reinventing is a sign of life in itself...
DIED. DON KNOTTS, 81, rail-thin, bug-eyed comedian famous for his roles as bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and ascot-sporting landlord Ralph Furley on Three's Company; in Los Angeles. Barney Fife was a tiny ensemble part until Knotts turned it into something grander, winning five Emmys in the process. A bid for family-film stardom in vehicles like The Incredible Mr. Limpet fell short, but Knotts was consistently in demand for character roles on sitcoms and in films, most recently lending his voice to Disney's Chicken Little.V...
...container manifest typically indicates only the details known to the final transportation carrier. For instance, a container could start in Central Asia, travel to an interior port in Europe, move by train to the Netherlands, cross the Atlantic by ship to Canada and then move by rail to Chicago. The manifest submitted to U.S. customs often will say only that the container is being shipped from Halifax and originated from Rotterdam. If a container is destined for a city inside the U.S., only in exceptional circumstances would it be inspected at the arrival port...