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...optional Healthy Choice meal, which readsalarmingly like a Weight Watchers menu, includes ahelping of Steamship of Beef, a slice of wholegrain bread, one cup of a leafy vegetable, a pieceof fruit and eight ounces of skim milk...

Author: By Surah E Scrogin, | Title: Nutrition Bites Harvard | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

Take the Red Line to South Station and from there catch a Plymouth and Brockton bus to Hyannis, summer retreat of the Kennedy family. From Hyannis, ride on the Steamship Authority's ferry to Nantucket. All this costs just $50, and it only takes four hours to get there...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Nantucket: The Grey Lady in Spring | 3/23/1994 | See Source »

Three tons of gold bars, nuggets, bullion and rare coins from the California goldfields were lost in 1857, when the steamship Central America sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas. Now this lost treasure, confirmed 18 months ago and worth up to $1 billion today, is in the eye of another hurricane, this time in a Norfolk, Va., courtroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasure: Going for The Gold | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

...called the Inter-City Experimental. Transrapid supporters, however, do not think the choice between conventional trains and maglevs should be an either-or one. Says one maglev enthusiast, Heinz Riesenhuber, Minister of Research and Technology: "Sailing ships were improved greatly in the past century, but at the same time steamship development went along and suddenly completely overtook sailing ships. That is how it will be with the Transrapid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Floating Trains: What a Way to Go! | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...with it. When he received no response, he slowly circled the ship three times to look for signs of life or danger. Then he dispatched an armed three-man expedition to board it. Shortly thereafter, León radioed Venezuelan navigation headquarters with his findings: "We have found the steamship Cloud, without flag, without crew. Its cargo: weapons. We wait for instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: Strange Cargo | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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