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...Alaska, the Caribbean and South America. There is also an increase in "home porting," which means cruise ships stop at smaller U.S. ports to pick up passengers who can drive there instead of taking a flight. Some 30 U.S. cities now operate as cruise-ship gateways, including Baltimore, Md.; Galveston, Texas; and Mobile, Ala.--roughly double the number in 2000. This year the falling dollar is expected to discourage Americans from taking European vacations and to prod Europeans to consider U.S.-based cruises. And with 85% of Americans and 90% of Europeans yet to try a cruise...
Louis Albert traveled from Shostakovich, Russia, to Omaha, Neb., in the early 1900s at the age of 14. Life would be good in Omaha, assured an immigration officer in Galveston, Texas, where Louis initially landed. He was right. Ten years later, the newcomer had earned enough to get his sisters Celia, Dora and Riva to the States as well. Together they would form the roots of the Albert family tree in the nation's heartland--one with long branches that would eventually stretch from Los Angeles to Denver to Mendham...
...worth an estimated $250 million, according to his lawyer, end up in a $300-a-month Galveston apartment in a death struggle with an elderly seaman? The eldest child of Seymour Durst, a New York City real estate tycoon, Durst was 7 years old when he reportedly saw his mother Bernice fall to her death from the roof of their home in what may have been a suicide. In 1972 he married Kathleen McCormack, a beautiful dental assistant. The couple had a history of violent confrontations, and on Jan. 31, 1982, she vanished. Then on Christmas Eve 2000, Durst...
...Durst was living in Galveston under the identity of a mute woman named Dorothy Ciner. "Dorothy" wore cargo pants and a blond wig. In Galveston, Durst met Black, 71, who lived across the hall and, according to Durst's testimony, became his "best friend." On Sept. 28, 2001, Durst returned to his rental to find Black there watching television. A scuffle ensued, Durst's pistol went off, and Black is believed to have died of head trauma...
Durst now sits in a Texas jail. Galveston district attorney Kurt Sistrunk told TIME he plans to pursue a charge of bail jumping against Durst, for which he could receive a prison term of up to 10 years. And Durst could soon be back in court to face a wrongful-death civil suit brought by Black's sister Gladys Saslaw, which would require a lighter burden of proof than the one he faced for Black's murder. For that, he may have to mount another extraordinary performance. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles