• The plan would affect both commercial and private vessels wanting to sail up the estuary.

    BBC: Anger over proposed estuary charges

  • Peru-based Aqua Expeditions launches the MV Aria this month, a 150-foot boat that will sail up the northern Amazon to view remote locations and rare wildlife like the native pink dolphins.

    BBC: Openings

  • The sail jerks up the 100-foot mast a few feet with each tug.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • If it were feasible, Greenpeace might want to sail it up to the door of President Yudhoyono and ask why the organisation's UK director, John Sauven, was refused entry to Indonesia and deported earlier this week - despite having a valid visa.

    BBC: Greenpeace Rainbow sails again

  • After their major bet on the Thilawa special economic zone south of Yangon, Japanese contractors have plans to deepen the Yangon River's estuary so that cargo ships can sail directly up to the city's shores and offload more containers of cars that are already being briskly snapped up at busy dealerships.

    CNN: From Burma to Myanmar: Land of rising expectations

  • 'What really excites me, ' says Jelal, waving to a friend who is climbing a mast to tie up his sail, 'is to make the journey from Aswan to Luxor.

    BBC: The perfect trip: Egypt

  • That is it is bi-stable like a sail boat that is right side up or upside down.

    FORBES: Will Angelina Jolie Help End Climate-Change Denial, And Help The Republican Party?

  • In 1994, tens of thousands of Cuban and Haitian migrants were held at the base after being picked up while trying to sail to Florida.

    CNN: Gunfire erupts after detainees leave for Cuba

  • His greatest triumph was to understand that the mysterious Cape Bojador, past which Europeans had been unwilling to sail because of the dangers (up to and including the end of the world) that lay beyond was in truth no barrier except in the mind.

    ECONOMIST: Historical biography

  • But fed up with bureaucratic hurdles, he packed up his collection and set sail for Venice.

    WSJ: Collecting Art With Fran?ois Pinault

  • He plans to meet with the Isles of Scilly Steamship Company to discuss the possibility of the major Scillonian re-fit being speeded up so the ferry can sail next Christmas.

    BBC: Plastic mats to strengthen Land's End runway

  • Not only that, but the sail will also act like a handkerchief, mopping up microscopic orbital detritus such as flecks of paint from previous launches.

    ECONOMIST: A satellite that tidies up after itself

  • And yet, up until a week before the flotilla set sail, Netanyahu was operating under the impression that he had struck a deal with Erdogan.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dreamy foreign policies

  • Perhaps the most remarkable revelation in the report is that up until a week before the flotilla set sail, led by the infamous Mavi Marmara, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was under the impression that he had reached a deal with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dreamy foreign policies

  • Velsheda can put up an incredible 9, 000 square feet of sail, more than twice as much as modern Cup boats, and accelerate to 13 knots in a heartbeat.

    FORBES: Two Sheets to the Wind

  • Both Al Busaidi and Al Hasni are part of the "Oman Sail" project, which aims to encourage people across Omani society to take up the sport.

    CNN: Oman sails into history in first transatlantic yacht race

  • That's when police say Joshua Hakken broke into the home, tied up his mother-in-law, took the children and eventually set sail for Cuba.

    NPR: Couple Jailed For Fleeing With Kids To Face Judge

  • The maritime alternative is to sail around the Arabian Peninsula, braving the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Yemen then up through the Suez Canal past the Egyptian hot spot of Sinai where a military operation remains under way.

    CNN: Pirates, wars: Hurdles for flight phobia boy

  • The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Not only did Clinton's numbers sail higher from a poll taken just one month earlier (before the scandal broke), but he picked up support from every category measured in the poll -- whether measured by age, education, income, region or community size.

    CNN: By Ronald D. Elving, CQ Staff Writer

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