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...every ancient mariner knew, traveling by sail is a simple way to go. Though the winds could be fickle and the boats pokey, the energy source that moved the ship was free, plentiful and renewable. Now the same technology that conquered the oceans of Earth may conquer the ocean of space...
...legal chemicals, which is why crystals are drying out in the open between two warehouses. "No one knows that this isn't an agricultural product," he smiles. "No one knows what methamphetamines look like." After Li's speed is processed it is handed over to local crime gangs, who ship it to Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia or take it overland into Burma to the Wa state, where the drugs are further refined into the tablets that are eventually smuggled into Thailand and sold, via numerous middlemen, to Jacky and her fellow addicts at the Do It Yourself Happy Homes...
...people, mainly Kurds, were on a ship that ran aground off the coast of southern France on Saturday. The Cambodian-registered East Sea appeared to have been deliberately run on to Boulouris beach near Saint Raphael. "The captain has fled, leaving the boat facing land, the propellors turned so that the boat cannot drift away," said Saint Raphael mayor Georges Ginestat. Rescuers believed the boat had left Greece eight days earlier and had stopped in Turkey. The vessel's human cargo, including 300 children under age 10, were assumed to be potential illegal migrants. None was seriously injured when...
...civilians were aboard, they did little more than "pretend to drive" the submarine during the rapid ascent drill, Navy officers said. Waddle and his crew were still responsible for scouring the surface with their sonar and periscope before launching the "emergency main ballast blow." The choppy waters and the ship's white color may have made detecting the trawler difficult. But Navy officers said that if, as the trawler's crew said, their vessel was steaming at 11 knots, it should have been generating enough noise to make sonar detection easy...
...visit was arranged by retired Admiral Richard Macke, who was forced to resign in 1996 after suggesting that three U.S. servicemen who raped a 12-year-old Japanese girl should have hired a prostitute instead. And this wasn't the first time a U.S. Navy submarine sank a ship named Ehime Maru: another U.S. sub had sunk a freighter by the same name during World...