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While Florida-based ships offer similar trips to nowhere, Le Mistral is the first in Texas. One reason is that it cruises through a loophole in state law that requires the ship to make a "bona fide voyage to a foreign port," an obligation Le Mistral fulfills by sailing to a point off Mexico and clearing customs by radio. But the Texas legislature is considering striking the foreign-port requirement, thus making such cruises more practical from Galveston and other Texas ports...
...spent a couple of days sorting photos in the Portland house Allison shares with her boyfriend, a local doctor. Allison and Luce did not know each other before the expedition, and though they are friendly enough, it seems doubtful that their lives from this point will take them in similar directions. The contrast in character is too great. Even the extraordinary physical and mental strengths that each possesses are of sharply divergent kinds. Luce is a big, powerful, easygoing soul who for several years ran her own restaurant in Seattle. When the restaurant began to consume her life, she quit...
...Seattle filmmaker, plan to pedal mountain bikes from Vladivostok to Leningrad, camping or sleeping in the houses of ordinary folk along the way, in a five-month tour starting in May. Four Americans and four Soviets will make the trip with cameras rolling, and then they will do a similar tour in the U.S. next year. The Soviets are enthusiastic, says Luce. Only one element is still uncertain. Right the first time. So it is back, with smile and mandolin, to the powerful- legs, powerful-suits scene. Back to those cold, cold phone calls to the vice president for sales...
Since my being gay isn't for me merely an aspect of my behavior but rather my love, I still perceive my identity as being disdained. It would be similar if a Black person were told that although blackness is distasteful or immoral, he or she is "o.k." For members of both a racial and sexual minority, prejudice is compounded...
...match up fairly well with St. Lawrence," Taylor said. "We want to give them similar types of games this weekend with a good defense and a controlled tempo...