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Harriet Carrier, who spends more of her time with the customers, recalls an 80-year-old man who once came looking for maps of straits in South America to plan for a trip as a member of the working crew of a three-masted sailboat...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Specialty Bookstores: Stories from the Square | 5/12/2010 | See Source »

...people have climbed Mt. Everest. 500 astronauts have traveled into space. Fewer than 50 people have sailed around the world. Alone. For 121 days. In a 60-foot sailboat...

Author: By Christen B. Brown, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bringing the High Seas Home | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Haiti An Escape Turns Deadly As many as 85 Haitians were feared dead after their overloaded sailboat struck a jagged coral reef and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. The rickety wooden craft was packed with about 200 people hoping to flee their impoverished nation when the accident occurred off the Turks and Caicos Islands. While more than 100 were rescued, the sinking could be the worst such disaster since 2007, when 80 Haitians died after their boat capsized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Having started the day with a tidy $65,000 three-bedroom ranch (down from $260,000), we end up at a Miami Vice house - fireplace in the master bedroom, sailboat access, with a pool on the upstairs deck that overflows in a waterfall into the pool downstairs, and a man cave hidden behind a swinging bookcase. Gina spots signs of water damage; they'll just have to keep looking for their promised land. "The Great Depression only happens once every 100 years or so," she says, "and I don't expect to be around for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hope in America's Foreclosure Capital | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...clash of present and future in images where kimonos are paired with severely bobbed hair. Titles like “A Stylish Beauty Dressed in a Kimono Standing Beside a Decorated Christmas Tree” and paintings of women wearing mid-calf length daydresses and cloches aboard a sailboat resemble a vintage issue of Vogue, encapsulating the feeling of the era’s unprecedentedly rapid Westernization.The works within “Showa Sophistication” capture the unbridled optimism of a nation, yet harbingers of the forties are visible even amongst the characteristically radiant imagery. Two elaborately decorated under...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MFA Shows Off Showa Style | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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