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Since the time of the Korean War, Vieques, an island of some 9,500 inhabitants, has been a prized military range. Recent studies, though, show that the bombing has hurled haunting levels of toxins into Vieques' air, water and fishing grounds--which some believe is why the cay has a 27% higher cancer rate than the main island. And because Vieques has some of the Caribbean's most exquisite beaches, locals complain that the Navy exercises have blighted tourism. Julio Rosa's sister Carmen, lost a breast to cancer a decade ago. (She lived a few miles downwind from...
...began in 1985 while Barry Bertiger, an engineer at Motorola, was vacationing in the Bahamas with his wife Karen. She wondered aloud why she couldn't call home from their secluded getaway on Green Turtle Cay. Good question, thought her spouse. By 1988, Bertiger and two colleagues had drafted blueprints for a revolutionary new system that would blanket the heavens with communications satellites--77 in all--bounce a cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed...
...three- and four-day cruises take you to Nassau, Bahamas, where gamblers can get their fix, and to a private Disney island called Castaway Cay. On this 1,000-acre preserve, kids are supervised in water play, while adults stroll (or bike ride) off to a remote beach for a massage and swimming. In the evening, they return to the ship for dinner in Lumiere's restaurant, the Parrot Cay or the Animators' Palate, where for dessert they get to "paint" their own sundae with chocolate, strawberry and mango sauces. Then it's off to one of three Broadway-style...
...their quest for synthetic perfection, the cruise lines have created their own ports of call. Disney's Castaway Cay in the Bahamas features three beaches and a 12-acre snorkeling lagoon. At Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean's 140-acre island, aquamarine waters lap at the white sand beach, while snorkelers explore a 16th century sailing ship and a small plane that the company submerged to give divers a sense of adventure. Alas, what Royal Caribbean calls a controlled shore experience some others have labeled a limited amusement experience. "There's nothing here but some palm trees," complained LaDonne Herring...
...using the Bahamas as a transshipment point for cocaine. Vesco was living in the Bahamas at that time and is thought to have helped Lehder bribe influential Bahamian officials to look the other way while coke-laden planes landed at and took off from Norman's Cay, a Bahamian island on which Lehder had built an outsize landing strip. Vesco was also said to have arranged for Lehder's planes to fly through Cuban air space. There was speculation last week that Havana would turn Vesco over to Washington to foster the datente both sides have been trying to achieve...