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Russia and Ukraine have been arguing for more than a year over what to do about the powerful 350-ship Black Sea fleet of the former Soviet navy. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk reached a solution: they will split the fleet down the middle. The fleet's port in Sevastopol, Ukraine, will be shared as well. Russia also agreed officially to guarantee Ukraine's security, a condition Kravchuk has insisted on before giving up his 1,900-warhead nuclear arsenal...
...list and did not at first take its late addition very seriously. The yard was founded in 1767 and built the first U.S. battleship, the Texas, and the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the Langley. The yard employs 10,000 workers and has seven dry docks that can handle any ship in the Navy...
...Harborwalk is a blue painted line that will take you from the Old State House to museums and landmarks along the Boston waterfront including the Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium (T:Aquarium, on the blue line) and the Boston Tea Party Ship...
Once the nation might have empathized with the Chinese immigrants pulled out of the waters off New York City last week. Like generations of previous newcomers, they believed the streets of the U.S. were paved with gold, and so they voluntarily crammed into the filthy hold of a ship for months at sea until it finally foundered off a Long Island beach, drowning six. In many ways they epitomized the "wretched refuse" of teeming foreign shores for whom, in Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, the Statue of Liberty lifts her lamp beside the Golden Door...
...Within a period of 12 hours, I went from my home in Brooklyn to the midst of a ship And I said to myself, 'What am I doing here? I am a Harvard student?,'" says Shambroom, who had volunteered to serve with a friend from Dunster after seeing an advertisement in the New Yorker magazine...