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...evening of April 15, a small wooden vessel was spotted making its way toward the northwest coast of Australia. By dawn, the Australian navy had intercepted the boat. As members of the HMAS Albany stepped on board, they noticed a strong smell of gasoline. Moments later, the craft exploded, leaving all of its human passengers - 47 Afghani asylum-seekers and two Indonesian crew members -stranded in the water. Five Afghanis died, and dozens, including four navy personnel and the crew, were injured in the blast...
...Australia by boat is on the rise. Nine months into 2009, there have already been 1239 recorded "irregular maritime arrivals" in Australia; in 2008, there were only 161 during the whole year. On September 11 and September 12, two boats carrying 148 asylum-seekers were discovered off the northwest coast of Australia. On September 16, another boat carrying 58 people was intercepted 265 miles (420 km) north of Broome in Western Australia. Just the day before, the Australian government announced that in co-operation with Indonesian authorities 1000 potential asylum-seekers were blocked from coming to Australia this year. Those...
...field of 18 of the nation’s best teams. Harvard tallied improving team marks of 310, 303, and 291 over the course of the three days, to finish the tournament 40 over par on the par 72 course. Pepperdine University the re[resentative from the West Coast Conference won the event with an overall mark of 17 over par. “We showed we can compete at a higher level against tougher schools,” Cho said. “This tournament was definitely a confidence booster for us.” Individually...
...Madison O. Klein ’11 as “a club for the ridiculously good looking and extraordinarily intelligent, and for those who are of lion-hearted courageousness—and modest,” The Board Riders at Harvard (BRAH) is intent on bringing some West coast surfing culture all the way to Boston. Klein and co-founder Benjamin B. Massenburg ’11, who are from southern California and Hawaii, respectively, decided to found BRAH this year in order to bring their passion for surfing to the Harvard student body and “make...
...first town of freed African slaves in the Americas is not exactly where you would expect to find it - and it isn't exactly what you'd expect to find either. First, it's not in the United States. Yanga, on Mexico's Gulf Coast, is a sleepy pueblito founded by its namesake, Gaspar Yanga, an African slave who led a rebellion against his Spanish colonial masters in the late 16th century and fought off attempts to retake the settlement. The second thing that is immediately evident to vistors who reach the town's rustic central plaza: there are virtually...