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Weeks later, home in Gloucester, Dorry hears bad news. Under attack by factory-ship interests, the Stevens bill has been weakened. Of the 45 big ships now operating, only the least efficient nine would be bought out of service, partially at taxpayer expense. "What this does," Dorry says, "is institutionalize factory fishing, not ban it. What it doesn't do is deal with overfishing." She is silent for a moment. Then: "No. No, the bus tour wasn't wasted. At least more people know there's a problem. The fight is in Congress now. It's winnable. We're going...
Most ambitious is building a successor ship to Cousteau's beloved Calypso, which sank in Singapore in 1996. Calypso II will be 217 ft. long, powered by an innovative turbosail-diesel engine combination. If it is ever built, that is: the $2 million raised from donations so far is a fraction of the $150 million needed...
Harvard will try to right the ship next weekend when it participates in the North-south Invitational at Princeton...
...space-tourism industry is not an entirely new concept. In 1996 a team of entrepreneurs based in St. Louis, Mo., formed an organization called the X Prize Foundation and offered a $10 million award to the first designer to develop a ship able to take passengers into space. The trip the sponsors envision is not much--a suborbital lob shot that would barely nick the skin of space. But a little outer space is still outer space, and since the prize was announced, 15 groups have submitted blueprints...
...percent of the time. By contrast, 17 percent of AST users had a bad out-of-box experience. Interestingly enough, AST users, while reporting the most initial problems, were also the least likely to call tech support -- a level of diminished expectations that may explain how PC makers can ship nonfunctional products and still make the big bucks...