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...third anniversary of another set of blasts that took 202 lives on the island. At 7:30 p.m. on a crowded Saturday, the popular tourist town of Kuta, the target of the 2002 attacks, was rocked by an explosion. A multistory restaurant was gutted. Simultaneously, restaurants around the crescent beach of Jimbaran Bay, not far south of Kuta, were attacked. Mangled bodies were laid out on the white sand. There were at least 22 dead. As for the injured, said an emergency worker, many had "their faces and arms ... ripped by the glass from stores." Quickly, candle vigils appeared...
...million for a fishing contest? Sounds crazy. Absolutely, says Irwin Jacobs, the genial chairman of Genmar Holdings Inc., which owns the FLW Tour: that's hardly enough money. So Jacobs is raising the big prize to $1 million next year and promising a celebrity pro-am, the Pebble Beach of angling. "Nobody ever believed we could do this," says Jacobs, a man not unacquainted with hyperbole. "But we're not anywhere near where we're going to be in 10 years...
...western Louisiana coastline, similarly deprived of Mississippi river sediment, has been losing, in some places, as much as 35 ft. of beach a year, according to biologist David Richard, a specialist in the area's wetlands. By the time Rita hit, he says, the Gulf of Mexico was more than a quarter of a mile closer to the inland cities than it was when Hurricane Audrey struck...
...Foodie website Gayot.com recommends restaurants with the best views in several destinations, including Hawaii, Paris and Miami ? Get a preview: Earthcam.com offers live feeds from around 30 restaurants worldwide. Many are of interiors, but others?from eateries as far afield as the Swiss Alps and S?o Paulo's Pitangueiras Beach?show views from windows and roofs
...yourself ever consider a lounging-on-the-beach retirement...