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...night I nearly died closed off one of the best days fishing I'd ever had. It was late last May, and I was shooting a TV series about Australia for PBS, the BBC and Australia's ABC network. The crew and I had a day off in the old pearling port of Broome, on the Indian Ocean. I decided to visit one of my favorite spots on earth: Eco Beach, two hours' drive south. On that unblemished coast I fished with a friend, Danny O'Sullivan, who had taken up guiding after a long stint...
...were receiving public money and then loaning it to private corporations. But Suharto may be benefiting from the narrow terms laid down for the inquiry initiated by his handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie. The official probe focused exclusively on Suharto?s charities, and a Habibie aide told the BBC that Suharto could not be prosecuted over the numerous decrees he passed benefiting his family over the national economy because those were made legal by the fact that they?d been passed by his cabinet and the legislature he controlled...
...sure my disability has a bearing on why I'm well known," Hawking has said in an interview with the BBC. "People are fascinated by the contrast between my very limited physical powers, and the vast nature of the universe I deal with...
...Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter along with about ten journalists from CNN, the BBC, AP and other news outlets, being taken to the site where India yesterday shot down a Pakistani plane. We were flying over an exquisite but weird landscape, that has been turned into hundreds of miles of waterlogged marshland by the monsoons. From the air it would be impossible to tell where one country ends and the other begins, which may explain how some of these incidents happen...
Returning to his native Australia last month, our art critic, Robert Hughes, began shooting a TV series titled Beyond the Fatal Shore for PBS, the BBC and Australia's ABC network. Along the way, Bob planned a series of letters/diaries to a close friend in New York City, chronicling his travels and observations. This account is the only one he completed before being seriously injured in a car crash, reported in our June 14 issue. Happily, Bob was to be released from intensive care this week and is making good progress on his recovery...