Nov 18th, 2008 · Most of the sailors in Australia's navy have been ordered ashore for two months leave starting next month. They've been ordered to take that long — paid — holiday leave because Australia's navy has been left with too few hands on deck, as would-be sailors find other jobs. Skeleton crews will provide security during the holiday break. Australia's defense minister says the navy hopes to increase recruitment by becoming something no navy has ever been: family friendly.
Keywords: minister · security · Family · recruiting · Australia · holiday · Skeleton · sailors · Navy · defense
Nov 10th, 2008 · Remember that iconic World War II photo of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square on Victory Day? The nurse returns to the spotlight Tuesday. Edith Shain, now 90, will be honored at New York's Veteran's Day parade. She's pretty sure she's the nurse in the photo. The image doesn't show their faces. And the photographer never got their names. Shain says she didn't know the sailor's name either. He just grabbed her and kissed her.
Keywords: victory · New York · icon · veterans · World War II · II · Photographs · photo · sailors · WW · Times Square · Edith Shain
Oct 24th, 2008 · Kenny Sailors is widely recognized as the originator of the jump shot in basketball. That was in the first half of the 20th century. Now 87, Sailors describes how it all started — and discusses the odd celebrity that his accomplishment has brought him.
Keywords: celebrity · basketball · original · odd · sailors · Kenny · Kenny Sailors
Oct 16th, 2008 · Fifteen sailors — collegiate nonprofessionals all — compete in one of the world's most celebrated yacht races in this handsomely shot if ultimately underwhelming documentary.
Keywords: world · ocean · documentary · Racer · sailors · collegiate · underwhelmed · nonprofessionals
Jun 3rd, 2008 · There's scarcely anyone writing better about the natural world than Barbara Hurd. In this book, Hurd turns her lyrical powers of observation to shingle beaches, spider crabs, jelly fish, dead sailors and a few shore-locked subjects too.
Keywords: world · naturalized · Spiders · sailors · shingles · Hurd · Barbara Hurd
May 7th, 2008 · It's been nearly eight years since al-Qaida's bombing of the USS Cole killed 17 sailors. Now, everyone convicted in the terrorist attack has escaped or been freed from prison. We examine how courts in Yemen have complicated U.S. efforts to prosecute the defendants.
Keywords: terrorist · convicted · Prisons · escaped · Yemen · USS Cole · prosecution · freed · sailors · cole · al Qaida
Mar 27th, 2008 · No one expects a 3-year-old who dresses like a princess to swear like a sailor, and yet some do. Experts say it's a part of the process of learning language. And policing every bad word uttered isn't necessarily the right reaction for parents.
Keywords: children · language · Princess · sailors · policing
Mar 22nd, 2008 · The sailors in Annapolis, Md., herald the season by taking off their socks. Believing that real boaters go sockless until fall, these guys add to their spring ritual with a ceremonial sock-burning.
Keywords: ritual · Md · sailors · rite · boaters · Annapolis · ceremonial
