...thousand people in one space far from land and have little or no passenger screening. "It was a bit of an eye-opener," Joe Myers, a Coast Guard risk engineer, said of a study he helped finish last month that gave large ferries the highest "risk...

...to do once this year. Fact: "The toilet is not a wastebasket with water in it," to quote utilities superintendent Joe Myers. Fact: The more weird stuff we flush, the higher our wastewater rates, since somebody gets paid to spend time unclogging...