SEATTLE----Todd Shipyards Corporation announced today its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation was awarded a contract by the Alaska Marine Highway System to perform overhaul and maintenance work on the Alaska State Ferry, MV Malaspina.
, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Today is Monday, Oct. 16, the 289th day of 2006 with 76 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Mars and Pluto.
The first week of October is totally THE best time to be in San Francisco. The days might start off foggy but by the afternoon it is sunny and warm, and in the evening you get the golden-est sunsets.
About 700 miles north of Vancouver, on a lonely snow-covered road that pushes on to the Yukon and Alaska, is a petrol station. There's not much traffic - just the occasional juggernaut swishing past, ferrying collossal tree trunks out of the wilderness and south to civilisation.
By Black, George Chile's booming, energy-hungry economy threatens one of the wildest, most beautiful places on earth. A global parable I'm drenched beyond imagining.
