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...sail solo? That's the question France-based CMA-CGM is asking, as the world's fifth largest container-ship company braces for a storm of industry consolidation. The fragmented shipping business, with more than 30 international players, is consolidating as fuel prices soar and the number of ships, boosted by expanding Chinese production, is increasing faster than the volume of trade. Says CMA CEO Jacques Saadé: "[Big] shipping companies have made good profits over the past few years; they have the means to buy smaller companies." CMA had $4.95 billion in revenues last year and has been expanding rapidly...
...damage, but it leaves the call button, the most vulnerable part of the product, exposed. This means that when you stick the headset in your purse or pocket, there's a significant chance it might power up, and even make a call or two. Why can't any manufacturers ship Bluetooth headsets with nice, tiny carrying cases? In the meantime, I think I'll try an empty Bubble Tape dispenser...
...Almost 300 died when forced onto the airstrip during an Allied bombing raid; 150 more died from ill-treatment, and the rest were bayoneted and buried in mass graves. The case was dropped because the victims were not Australian; relatives were told the men had died when a prison ship carrying them was sunk. "We only found out in 1997 what really happened," says June Woods, 69, whose father Alfred Burgess was one of the victims. "The government should have held the Japanese responsible." Sixty years on, the sorrow of her loss is deepened by the sense of betrayal...
CHARLIE BROWN, U.S. Navy spokesman, after terrorists fired a rocket at a U.S. naval vessel in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, missing the ship but killing a Jordanian soldier...
...pious family in Brooklyn's Borough Park, Sammy spent eight years in religious schools before transferring to a public high school, where he majored "in sports," he says. After a stint studying automotive mechanics, Sammy joined the Marine Corps in 1968 just in time to ship out to Vietnam. He was badly wounded twice and spent the next year in a military hospital. But he "always knew [he] would go to live in Israel," he says. "It was part of the way I was brought up, taught that the No. 1 thing to be a good Jew was to live...