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...early 19th century a profitable whaling industry filled the city with wealthy Yankee ship captains. But when the discovery of new oil sources rendered whaling obsolete, New Bed-ford turned to textile manufacturing to preserve its prosperity...
...Even though we're not landing as much fish aswe used to in our ports, we're continuing toprocess fish and ship fish around the world,"Furtado says. "We're looking to develop our harborso that we can import, export and process fishmore efficiently...
...could open that darn hatch -- and he broke three wrenches trying. ?I am somewhat distressed that we have failed to open the hatch,? Solovyov conceded. That?s an understatement. The space walk now has to wait until a new stock of wrenches is sent up in the next cargo ship -- and Mission Control has to wait to see if the world noticed...
With feel-good comedies and soapy ship operas dominating commercial cinema, the visionaries are in retreat. Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) and Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall) have renounced the form. That leaves the creation of dank, luscious worlds within worlds to Alex Proyas. And he'll do fine. The Egyptian-born, Australian-raised director of The Crow has a chilling new fever dream called Dark City--a reminder of how sensuous a visual trip movie watching...
TOMAHAWK CRUISE MISSILE In 1991 a stunned CNN newsman watched a ship-launched Tomahawk navigate past his Baghdad hotel room toward its last stop. We used 288 last time Cost: $750,000 each...