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...Missionaries who came to Tonga shortly after Vason appear to have stuck more closely to their brief, and to have frowned on a pastime in which men and women, boys and girls - almost certainly naked - cavorted in the surf. It's thought that the missionaries convinced the chiefs that fanifo was corrupting Tongan youth and didn't belong in a budding Christian society, and that the chiefs placed on the sport a tapu, or ban. "This is, to some extent, speculation," says Po'oi Puloka, secretary general of the Tonga Amateur Sports Association and National Olympic Committee (tasanoc...
...Tonga's next generation is coming through. On this morning there are probably more complete surfers than 10-year-old Alan Burling showing their wares. But he's the kid who catches the eye. While the others appear wary of falling, he zips across the waves with abandon. "I want to be a pro surfer," he says later during a game of ping-pong, in which he at first pretends never to have played the game, and then begins swiping balls into the corners. Dad Steve is not ruling it out: "I think he's surfing better than Michael...
...cattle grazing, surrounded by a green tide of dense bush, vine and coconut palms. Some time later a village, now vanished, sprang up on top of the graves, perhaps as memory of them faded. Animal bones have been found with the remains, and large pieces of Lapita pottery appear to have been broken and placed in the grave pits. Flat pieces of coral had been placed where their heads once were, each topped with a ring made from a cone shell...
...Then again, our boy Millar has four homers. Renteria hasn?t looked like much in the clutch. Schilling? That wildcard spot doesn?t appear to be as readily available as it has been in recent years. Baltimore may linger, and the Blue Jays have improved. Halladay?s the very definition of lights...
...jump around to find the commands I needed. Worse, my Scientific Atlanta cable box frequently requires the use of selection buttons labeled A, B and C, and those buttons did not translate to the RC9800i. There is a way to add the commands, but they wouldn't appear where I want them, and wouldn't be labeled correctly...