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The MSC cargo ship Fabiola is manuevered to its dock at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, Friday, March 16, 2012. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Record-sized cargo ships require port changes

Last updated Saturday, March 24, 2012 - 4:27pm

LOS ANGELES -- The largest cargo container ship to ever dock in the Americas made a fog-shrouded first voyage into the Port of Long Beach on Friday, sending a message to competitors that Southern California can handle the giant vessels most others can't welcome for at least two more years.

Out by the breakwater, it looked as though a man-made island had sprung up overnight, but the dark shape was a vessel called the Fabiola, g

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(BECK DIEFENBACH/The Associated Press) A container ship leaves the Port of Oakland after protestors closed several entrances to the port, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Anti-Wall Street protesters along the West Coast joined an effort Monday to blockade some of the nation’s busiest docks, with the idea that if they cut off the ports, they cut into corporate profits.

Protesters halt operations at some Western ports

Marcus Wohlsen, Terry Collins The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 8:55am

OAKLAND, Calif. — Heady with their successful attempts to block trucks and curb business at busy ports up and down the West Coast, some Occupy Wall Street protesters plan to continue their blockades and keep staging similar protests despite requests to stop because they’re hurting wage earners.

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Russian cargo ship launched to space station

Vladimir Isachenkov The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, October 30, 2011 - 4:26pm

MOSCOW — A Russian cargo ship was launched successfully to the International Space Station on Sunday, clearing the way for the next manned mission and easing concerns about the station’s future after a previous failed launch.

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Monkeys die while being shipped in crates to Asia

Andrew Blankstein Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 2:25pm

LOS ANGELES -- Two men, including a Florida animal broker, have been charged by L.A. city prosecutors with multiple counts of animal cruelty after more than a dozen monkeys died being while shipped from South America to Asia via Los Angeles International Airport.

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You have mail, from a body-parts broker

Todd C. Frankel St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Last updated Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 9:20am

ST. LOUIS -- The FedEx envelope looked ordinary. White, with the purple and orange logo. It arrived recently in the newsroom. The packing slip listed the sender as Philip J. Guyett Jr. Placing the name took a moment. Guyett? Wait. Wasn't that the guy ... the guy who sent body parts via FedEx?

Eight years ago, Guyett made headlines when he shipped three FedEx boxes to the St. Louis area. One of those boxes was damaged en route. It began leaking blood. A worker at a shipping facility in Maplewood, Mo., decided to look inside. He found a human leg, cut off at mid-thigh. He opened the other boxes. He found a second severed leg and a full arm.

It was a Dahmer-esque discovery. Police were called, media alerted. And to just about everyone's surprise, officials said it was all legal. Shipping body parts was fine, with the correct paperwork. And Guyett had it.

With that, he disappeared from public view. But the episode felt unfinished, like this couldn't possibly be the end of things. And it wasn't -- which explained the FedEx envelope from Guyett now.

Guyett was a body broker. He doesn't like that term. But it best describes him: a death-industry middleman who found people willing to donate their bodies to science, then carved them up and distributed the pieces nationwide to surgical conferences and research labs.

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