At Red Hook, Worries Over Possible Shutdown of Customs Station The New York Times | The journey of a banana from Ecuador to Brooklyn is a precisely timed affair, from the moment it is sliced off a stalk and then packed onto a ship for a seven-day refrigerated cruise to the Red Hook Container Terminal. From there, the banana has on...
Costa Concordia: what made the captain panic? The Daily Telegraph The extraordinary behaviour of Capt Francesco Schettino after his cruise liner Costa Concordia ran aground sparked widespread outrage. But history demonstrates that stunned paralysis is a natural – but not inevitable – response to a disas...
Cruise ship threatens marine paradise Asbury Park Press | PORTO ERCOLE, ITALY - Stone fortresses and watchtowers which centuries ago stood guard against against marauding pirates loom above pristine waters threatened by a new and modern peril: fuel trapped within the capsized Costa Concordia luxury liner....
A "High-Five" to Alaskan Attractions The Examiner | Enjoying Relaxing Alaskan Inland Tour | The first portion of our 12-day cruisetour was a fully escorted, five night inland tour in late August. The well-planned cruise-organized activities started out in Fairbanks, Alaska, with a high energy r...
Three-point assault lifts Badgers over Northwestern Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Madison – Now that is how you re-establish your dominance over Big Ten foes at the Kohl Center. | You get off to a quick start with a trio of three-pointers and after a tightly contested first half you bury the opposition with an even more impr...
Walker to return $38 million earmarked for health exchanges Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Madison - The state will turn down $38 million in federal money that could have gone to implementing the federal health care law in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday. | The Republican governor said that he was returning the money because he...
Day care fraud nets Falls woman 18 months in prison Milwaukee Journal Sentinel As a felon, Ferlisha Ivy couldn't get a license to run a day care, so she got one in the name of her son, and another in the name of her daughter. | But it was Ivy, prosecutors say, who ran both Dream Angels and Ne Ne's, and who got others involved i...
Elvis' 77th birthday celebration Tonight at the Count Basie Asbury Park Press | It's been 77 years since Elvis Presley was born. And a decade has passed since Elvis impersonators Mike Albert and Scot Bruce played their first "Elvis Birthday Bash" at the Count Basie Theatre. | "Time flies when you're having fun," Albert said during a telephone interview from Lancaster, Pa. "I can't think of anything more fun than this." | Par...
