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...used during the 2000 G.O.P. Convention. "I mean, they just stole it!" Near Gillespie, three dozen staff members tapped away on their computers, truth-squading Kerry's claims amid enlarged photographs of the Massachusetts Senator in a goofy space suit he had been photographed in during a visit to Cape Canaveral in Florida. Some from Bush's inner sanctum did admit that Kerry had given a forceful speech. And high praise went to earlier performances by Kerry's daughters Vanessa and Alexandra. "They are terrific," Hughes emailed Bartlett during their appearances. "The most compelling thing from [the Democrats]." Still...
...water (and sometimes on sand, grass or snow)-is the extreme sport of the moment. "Four years ago, kiteboarding was just for a few determined and durable extreme athletes because the equipment was unevolved and you had to teach yourself," says Trip Forman, co-owner of Real Kiteboarding in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, a kiteboarding school. "But now there's good, inexpensive gear, and people can take classes from certified pros." Forman's outfit boasts 18 full-time coaches, and 6,000 people are already registered to take lessons this year, double last year's number. Students-including U.S. presidential...
...glide over or jump atop bodies of water (and sometimes on sand, grass or snow) - is the extreme sport of the moment. "Four years ago, kiteboarding was just for a few determined and durable extreme athletes," says Trip Forman, co-owner of Real Kiteboarding, a kiteboarding school in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. "But now there's good, inexpensive gear, and people can take classes from certified pros." Next stop on the tour is the Freestyle and Wave Event at Matosinhos, Portugal, this week. "It's a growing sport, combining wind and sea, that is dramatically developing as the number...
...corrupt employees are selling passports. South African passports were among illegal documents found in a raid on a suspected terrorist safe house in London four months ago. "Other countries are already growing wary of our passports," says Anneli Both, a terrorism expert with the Institute for Security Studies in Cape Town. "Now they will think twice before letting us in anywhere...
...other part of Australia's frontier is as closely watched by authorities as the Torres Strait, a shallow sea spanning the 150 km from the tip of Cape York to the coast of Papua New Guinea and flanked by the Coral Sea to the east and the Arafura Sea to the west. Scattered across the Strait like stepping stones are 138 islands, only 17 of which are inhabited. This region, many of whose 8,000 Australian residents follow traditional indigenous lifestyles, seems a tranquil tropical idyll. But for professional border-watchers - officials of the Australian Customs Service, Federal Police, Quarantine...