But, even if China had heavy-crude refining capacity--which it doesn't--it wouldn't make economic sense to trade the four-day boat trip to Houston for a 40-day ride across the Pacific.
CHEF'S NOTE: This is an excellent dish to make when cod from local fishermen is available (day-boat cod).
Each summer day a boat carries curious visitors from the island's capital to a nearby port, from where a bus winds them up a paved road to Olymbos.
But that day on his boat, Rob was expecting his cell to work.
The government has mooted reforms that would reduce May Day observance to a single day and distribute the rest over a series of one-day holidays for the traditional Tomb Sweeping day, Dragon Boat festival and Mid-Autumn festival.
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Now 80 years old, he still heads out in his boat every day, bringing in mostly rock crab and small fish called smelts.
The same day, the U-boat sunk the Lusitania, killing 1, 200 civilians on their way from America.
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Hundreds of people also take boat rides every day into the middle of the waters, where the two rivers meet.
She immediately felt a parallel between the boat and her day job: that technology can make the seemingly impossible possible.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found less than a day later, hiding in a boat and bleeding in a man's backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Mr. ALFRED TABAN (Publisher, Khartoum Monitor): They build a huge building like that and bring boats that day--so a big boat or cruise liner or whatever it is, being brought for the heads of state.
His 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, was captured a day later, found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house in Watertown, a suburb of Boston.
Garry Walton was on his first foreign holiday without his parents when he chose to go on a boat trip on the last day of the week-long break.
Or, see the great island by boat on a Circle Line day cruise, a World Yacht dinner cruise, or even the free Staten Island Ferry, where you sail right past Lady Liberty.
The guy who'd won an Oscar in Cameron Crowe's 1996 film, "Jerry Maguire, " was now appearing in lackluster fare such as "Rat Race, " ''Daddy Day Camp, " ''Boat Trip, " ''Chill Factor" and "Snow Dogs.
The list of year-round activities on offer - the Svalbard tourist office has a comprehensive list, as well as a booking facility - includes hiking, glacier walks, kayaking and boat excursions that last a day or ten in summer, or dog-sledding and snowmobiling in winter.
Tourist Ernst Mollemans, on the last day of his vacation and taking a boat trip from one island to another south of Phuket, narrowly escaped death or serious injury when he heard the driver scream and abruptly turn the boat toward a small beach to their left.
The sport dates back thousands of years, but some of these warriors are modern-day breast cancer survivors racing in a dragon boat festival on Lake Peachtree south of Atlanta, Georgia.
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On this spring day only two people are waiting to take the boat back to the mainland.
They'll pack the boat with engineers who will write code day and night.
Mr. HANK CLEMITIS: (Singing) On the first day of Christmas, Katrina gave to me my boat sitting in an oak tree.
The Vrinda offers set 2 and 3 day excursions, but if you book the whole boat, you can tailor your experience.
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You can charter a local boat from Labuanbajo for two or three day cruises in park waters, snorkel over pristine reefs, lounge on pink sand beaches and hike on Rinca and Komodo (one and a half and three hours by boat from Labuanbajo respectively).
There will also be a pop-up gallery, a pipe band, dance performances, a traditional boat building display and a ceilidh on the day.
Police have determined that McDermott did indeed board the vessel, fished with the others and socialized on the boat both on June 30 and the next day, July 1.
Seldom did we lock the boat when we left for short periods during the day and never while sleeping at night.
Lucia was supposed to last all day, but about four hours into the journey, the boat's electric system crackled and popped.
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