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...Adventure seekers: if bungee jumping and whitewater rafting have lost their thrill, how about trying the new Shark Bay attraction at Sea World, tel: (61-7) 5588 2205, on Australia's Gold Coast? This brand-new adrenaline rush allows you-using a snorkel or, if you're a certified diver, via a scuba dive-to come face-to-face with some of our most feared predators. Either way, you'll swim in a reef lagoon accompanied by a qualified dive leader, with an underwater educational trail to follow...
...Shark Bay is the largest man-made shark lagoon in the world, giving bigger sharks enough space to perform a 60-m-long swim-glide pattern, a technique used by sharks at rest. The lagoon is also home to giant rays and schools of tropical fish. As for the deadly tiger sharks-don't worry. Public liability insurance does not allow for direct contact with these especially dangerous brutes. They are isolated in a separate pool behind a clear-glass screen that gives you the uncanny feeling that they're just inches away. In fact, the only predators you might...
...same rules don’t seem to apply today. A recently leaked report by the International Committee of the Red Cross describing systematic prisoner abuses “tantamount to torture” at the United States’ main prisoner holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has shattered the notion, advanced by the Bush Administration, that instances of U.S.-condoned torture are scarce to nonexistent. Instead, the report details the well-entrenched methods interrogators use to extract information from prisoners. Female interrogators bare their breasts and use sexual innuendo to shame their charges. Prisoners are subjected to loud...
...hope that the legislature recognizes this, and does not continue with the attempt to deny one group of people equal treatment by referendum,” added Murphy, who co-sponsored a resolution in February that paved the way for Cambridge to become the first city in the Bay State to issue the licenses...
...fewer loopholes and higher revenues. And (at least temporarily) surrendering to the legislature by limiting spending cuts to about $5 billion. And what of the extra $17 billion in debt? Paper over some with rosy economic forecasts and accounting tricks, but borrow $15 billion to keep the creditors at bay. Yes, borrow in order to fund…borrowing. This comes after Arnold attacked Gray Davis in the recall campaign for the “fiscal mess” that his predecessor’s plan to borrow $10 billion would cause...