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Peter Fleming, a family friend who eventually hired Rowe to work in his New York law firm, recalls spending summers on Cape Cod with the Rowes...
...CAPE TOWN: Church bombing isn?t necessarily a human rights violation, former South African president P.W. Botha told a court hearing today. Botha?s contempt-of-court trial heard evidence that the octogenarian hardliner had ordered the August 1988 bombing of the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, in which 21 people were injured. Botha is unfazed by the charges: ?He?s never denied ordering the bombing,? says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. ?He?s never admitted it either. In his own inimitable way, he?s saying he did it because the building was the headquarters...
...like a futuristic ship preparing for exploration. That's as it should be: The aquarium, the largest in Europe, is the centerpiece of Expo '98, a world's fair dedicated to "The Oceans" and timed to celebrate Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos, especially those created by Peter Chermayeff of the Massachusetts-based architecture firm Cambridge Seven, the Columbus and Da Gama of aquarium design...
Chermayeff, who fell in love with the sea as a child on Massachusetts' Cape Cod, is proudest of how his new aquarium lets you see distinct environments united into one, interconnected oceanic whole. Fourteen-inch-thick acrylic walls separate the habitats with their murres and penguins from the pelagic sharks, jacks and clouds of schooling mackerel. The animals seem to live alongside, yet are safely away from, the predatory ocean dwellers. "The wonderful thing is that it all starts to connect and take on a richness," says Chermayeff. Indeed, it's possible to look past puffins and otters...
...required, and the proceedings are open to any of WorldPerks' approximately 17 million members worldwide. Some of the 25,000 people who have taken part have won goodies like tickets to the Grammy Awards, private cooking lessons in Paris with world-renowned chefs and an escorted trip to a Cape Canaveral launch, according to Susan Edberg, director of WorldPerks marketing...