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In the Wake of Ugly Incidents at Sea, the Cruise Industry Is in Hot Water
When one cruise ship experiences problems at sea, it's categorized as an isolated incident. What happens when several ships operated by the same company run into...
Disney's Fantastic Voyage
Disney owns childhood. For three quarters of a century, since the 1937 premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Walt Disney Company has created animated...
Gaddafi’s Son Ordered His Own Cruise Ship, Complete With Shark Tank
Forget about shark-infested waters: Hannibal Gaddafi’s dream was to have a cruise ship, one that he could call his own – complete with a frilly shark tank...
5 Ways You're Getting Nickel-and-Dimed While Traveling
Don't look now, but travel could be getting even more expensive. The New York Times is reporting that the Obama administration has proposed increasing the air...
Lost in Libya's Turmoil: Workers from the Third World
Aziz has no passport, no money and a lot of anxiety. He spent months making his way illegally northeast from West Africa, bypassing other conflicts, to get away...
Feces on the High Seas: What is Your Cruise Ship Dumping?
Full disclosure: I don't 'cruise.' The idea of boarding a moveable city and being forced to share every meal for a week with friendly strangers does not sound...
Crime Rocks The Boats
Like so many other tales of cruise-ship crime, Janet Kelly's story begins with a cocktail and ends with a confidentiality agreement. Six years ago, on the last...
All Aboard The U.S.S. Pork!
If a bankrupt cruise company, its half-finished ships and taxpayers left holding the bill don't spell opportunity to you, you're just not ready for Capitol Hill...
The Perfect Snore
When I was a lad, I dreamed of running away to sea. It was a harmless enough fantasy for a kid living in middle-class suburban Houston, who was just as likely...
Battle Stations
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...
