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Russia is not saying much about checking the laces as the wheezing old Mir prepares to end its life in a planned crash, scheduled for Thursday or Friday of this week. The 143-ton ship will re-enter the atmosphere in a flaming arc over the South Pacific, hitting the ocean as a sizzling pile of slag somewhere between Chile and Australia. But even as this final dive approaches, Mir's biographers are working hard to catalog the station's achievements: the 16,500 experiments conducted in its labs; the 600 industrial technologies it helped create; the 104 crew members...
Surely the most disturbing point was the Americans' labeling the Ehime Maru "a fishing vessel" instead of a high school training boat. If a Japanese warship had sunk an American ship with high school students onboard, causing the death of several of them, what would the American public have said? DAVID WOOD Fukuoka, Japan...
There used to be two don'ts for corporate-meeting planners: don't take employees on a ship, and don't serve them fish. But that's just what the cruise-ship industry is trying to do. The industry built a fleet of leviathans in the '90s, which led to a glut and depressed prices last year. So now it has launched an aggressive campaign to grab a piece of the more than $20 billion corporate-meeting and incentive (or employee-reward) business...
...past five years, all major cruise lines have striven to make themselves meet-worthy. Leading the pack is Royal Caribbean, which in 1995 introduced Legend of the Seas, its first meeting-intensive ship. Since then, 12 of its fleet of 13 ships have been outfitted for work as well as play. RC's Voyager of the Seas and Explorer of the Seas are 142,000-ton whales that feature a 425-seat conference room, an ice-skating rink that doubles as a trade-show arena, an Internet cafe and a theater with a capacity of 1,362. Other players like...
Cost can be a factor. Kinko's, which has chartered ships to reward employees, considered holding a meeting on board. But, according to a spokesperson, "after some research, we learned we'd spend a fortune on just e-mail and checking our voice mail." Ship-to-shore phone charges range from $7.50 to $9 a minute. As for e-mail, setting up an individual account on a Carnival ship costs $3.95; receiving e-mail is $3.95; and surfing the Web runs 75[cents] a minute. Other costs include port fees and tips...