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...about a bloody moment in maritime history: the bloody mutiny on the whaleship Globe. Norton, publisher of Thomas Heffernan's "Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock," writes, "When Comstock - a headstrong 20-year-old - signed on to the whaleship Globe in 1822, his sea chest contained an unusual secret stash - a diverse collection of seeds, tools, medical supplies and weapons. With these neatly packed items, Comstock intended to carry out a strange career goal: to become king of his own South Seas island. Two years into the voyage, he put this plan into action, first leading...
...face life in prison for setting the blaze in the town of Childers that claimed the lives of four Australians, six Britons, two Dutch, one Irish, one Japanese and a South Korean. DIED. Raffaele Ciriello, 42, veteran Italian war photographer, after being shot six times in the abdomen and chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there since Israeli-Palestinian fighting broke out in Sept. 2000; in Ramallah. DIED. Spyros Kyprianou, 69, former President of Cyprus, who during his 11-year term stood uncompromisingly against the isle's separatist Turkish minority...
...They had a make-up guy touching up stuff on my face and chest and I joked, ‘Oh, heaven forbid I look natural,’ and the guy was, like, ‘This is a magazine—are you kidding...
...that the BJP had gone centrist and wouldn't allow its chauvinistic urges to disrupt a country discovering itself economically - or, at the very least, that the supposedly moderate Vajpayee could rein in the wilder elements of his group. But last week's violence was sparked by more Hindu chest thumping in Ayodhya, where militant Hindus want to build a grand temple on the site of a mosque destroyed by mobs in 1992, which was virtually guaranteed to set off trouble...
...exhausting ritual, but worth it, according to Niwet. A few years ago he had a tiger tattooed on his chest. He got into a tight spot and someone pointed a gun at him and pulled the trigger. The gun jammed. "The tiger did that," he says. In theory the tattoos shouldn't work for anyone who fails to lead his life according to the Buddha's precepts, which include nonviolence. But the monks admit that their tattoos tap into a power even they cannot fully explain...