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...TAKE THE BAIT There's something decidedly fishy about this website, which doles out chapter and verse on angling in the great outdoors around Noosa. And if you catch (or nearly catch) something big, you might even make the Tall Stories page...
...blubbering over the prospect of hungry cetacean connoisseurs waiting on shore with carving knives and barbecue grills and using CDs of Songs of the Humpback Whale for bait, you're not alone. Junko Sakurai of Greenpeace Japan doubts officials will make much of an effort to rescue beached whales if they know they can trade them in at the local supermarket. "We have pork, chicken, beef and fish. Why do we need whale?" says Sakurai, although as a member of Greenpeace, she may not be the best judge of the succulent taste of a nicely grilled finback-whale steak...
...antitank missiles. When the same Green Berets couldn't dislodge a well-entrenched Iraqi detachment from around a bridge in Basra, they broadcast the sound of approaching tanks from their humvees, drawing the Iraqi troops out of hiding and exposing them to fire--a model psychological operation. "It was bait-and-ambush," the intelligence officer said later...
...with actors blessed with a talent for quiet rage—notably, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia and Ed Burns. Burns is the con man who runs afoul of Hoffman’s unsettlingly short crime boss. Rachel Weisz also stars as “The Bait,” according to the film’s poster; Luis Guzman, Harvard alum Donal F. Logue ’88 and Yale alum Paul Giamatti take smaller roles. Confidence screens...
...Marines are the bait. Why bring the enemy out in the open so far from Baghdad? McCoy's battalion is waiting farther back in order to clear out pockets of resistance and secure supply lines. "We want to keep the enemy on their heels," he says. So as the rest of the 7th Marine Regiment pushes north toward the capital, 3/4 Battalion plans to pick a fight at the rear of the convoy. "It's just a good opportunity to kill these guys," McCoy says. "I don't say that with a lot of bravado, but we're here...