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...overcome. As she declined, however, they recast her fate as a call to radical faith. "With Hope, the rubber met the road," says member Wayne Buchanan. "At a time like this, you either believe or not." He says the group finally concluded that "we will go down with the ship, believing in our hearts that God is in control." Some thought this recommitment may have been part of God's plan for Hope. At her memorial, Bob MacKenzie, a group member who has since died of heart failure, said, "The Bible says, 'A little child shall lead them.' Make...
Because of a record trade deficit, the U.S. imported nearly 5 million more containers of goods than it shipped out last year. Meanwhile, Chinese factories have been cranking out containers for $2,500 each, making it cheaper for shippers to buy new ones in Asia than to ship the empties back. So colorful 40-ft. by 8-ft. by 10-ft. boxes are piling up like giant Lego blocks at U.S. waterfronts from Newark, N.J., above, to Norfolk, Va., to Los Angeles. People living near the port in L.A. want the city to build a berm that will block their...
...against the slate-gray Baltic skyline, the Finnfighter has neither the smooth horizontal lines of a conventional freighter nor the bulk of a passenger ferryboat. It combines elements of both, as if a cargo ship had slowly crunched its stern flat against an iceberg. It's the latest in a new line of ships to roll out of Dry Dock No. 1 in the industrial port city of Gdynia. It's also a rare economic success story to emerge from the tatters of communist rule...
...with generators, mostly out of state, that are trying to bleed us dry," Davis said back home - where he was proudly cutting the ribbon on a brand new Bay Area power plant. "Clearly they don't have the best interests of Californians at heart, and they're trying to ship every dime out of our state and back to Houston, Texas...
NIGERIA Delivered from a Voyage to Nowhere After spending 26 days at sea, 156 Liberian passengers aboard a Swedish-registered ship were finally allowed ashore in Lagos. The Alnar Stockholm left Monrovia on June 1 bound for Ghana but was refused permission to dock. The ship's captain then tried Benin and Togo, but they also declined to accept the passengers, who claimed to be refugees from fighting in their homeland. As the ship drew into Lagos they were too exhausted and hungry to celebrate but sang a hymn praising God for their deliverance...