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Zhang sounds the ferry's horn at an oncoming barge. He is in favor of the controversial Three Gorges Dam, which, he says, will deepen the water and allow big ships to sail all the way upstream to Chongqing, bringing economic development in their wake. "We are only half developed compared with the Mississippi, where you have dams that make the water flatter and easier for shipping," he says. Like most Chinese today, he is fascinated by the wealth of the U.S. and by its political system. "Mao started the Cultural Revolution on his own. Even if you want...
...National Team Race Championships by placing third at the New England Team Race Championships, held at Yale April 18-19. The top two teams in the nine-team field earned spots in the national tournament, and Harvard was edged out by B.C. and Connecticut College in a sail...
...frustrating loss, since the Crimson was one of three teams to tie for first on the first day of competition. But on the second day, Harvard was forced into a single-elimination round-robin sail-off in which it lost to both teams. Moreover, the Crimson had beaten both schools two weekends earlier when it finished second at the Friis Trophy Team Race...
With its forest of steel masts, miles of cable rigging and giant, sail-shaped glass roof, the new aquarium that opened in Lisbon last week looks like a futuristic ship preparing for exploration. That's as it should be: The aquarium, the largest in Europe, is the centerpiece of Expo '98, a world's fair dedicated to "The Oceans" and timed to celebrate Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos...
...since the Titanic set sail has the sea seemed so alluring or the cruise industry looked so unsinkable as it does today. With 5 million customers booking passage last year--a 10-fold increase from two decades ago--major carriers such as Carnival and Royal Caribbean have steamed to record sales and profits. They have turned a once snooty form of travel into mass-market vacations for people like Ken and Sherry Nunn and daughter Ashley, an Indiana family that recently spent three nights aboard Royal Caribbean's cozy 2,250-passenger Sovereign of the Seas. "Everything's right there...