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...Giant's Causeway This UNESCO World Heritage Site, pictured, 3 km east of Bushmills, boasts a stunning cliff walk and a series of uniquely shaped rock formations from way back when molten lava met the cooling seawater. See if you can spot the Camel, the Granny, the Giant's Boot and the Wishing Chair. The polygonal basalt columns are perfect for a midafternoon seaside scramble. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge Once an even shakier bridge used by salmon fishermen to access a tiny island they used as a fishery, the now tourist-safe bridge, less than a kilometer from...
...BUZZ The Poseidon Adventure does not generate much Internet alarm over its desecration. The folks at Warner Bros. (like TIME, an arm of Time Warner), seem to be quietly confident. Their ace in the hole is director Wolfgang Petersen, who, having directed The Perfect Storm and Das Boot, knows from terror and tension on top of and beneath the waves. Poseidon could just be the preposterous, grip-the-armrest thriller people love in summer. Or, like the ship, it could be a sinker. -By Belinda Luscombe...
...Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died Jan. 5, hours after arriving at a juvenile boot camp for stealing his grandmother's car and violating probation. A local coroner says sickle cell trait, not an altercation with boot camp guards, killed Anderson. But an eerily silent surveillance video shows Bay County deputies restraining, kicking and punching the boy, who at times appeared limp and unable to comply. The results of a second autopsy remain secret, but at least one coroner involved says the youth did not die of sickle cell, or any other natural causes...
...Following Anderson's death, Florida officials shut down the Bay County boot camp while state lawmakers scrambled to improve standards at the handful of remaining programs. But that hasn't been enough to satisfy critics of the handling of the incident...
...Created in the mid-1980s as a cost-effective way of using "tough love" to turn around troubled youth, many juvenile boot camp programs have closed due to poor performance and marginal results. North Dakota, Colorado and Arizona all abandoned boot camps in the 1990s after mounting allegations of abused kids were measured against miserable recidivism rates. Georgia shut down its program in 1999 and Texas, a state synonymous with discipline, is shuttering its programs. Even before the latest controversy, Florida was in the process of scaling back its boot camps. Now, however, it wouldn't surprise anybody if that...