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...heavily guarded launchpad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, 125 miles up the Pacific Coast from Los Angeles, a 63-ft.-tall gleaming white rocket sits and waits. Secreted in the nose of the 37-year-old Minuteman II is a 5-ft.-long cone--a mock warhead--and a deflated Mylar balloon. Let's say they are part of an incoming missile from North Korea or Iran. Meanwhile...
...Turkey--After spending the first 19 years of my life with my feet firmly planted on American soil, I embarked on the adventure of a lifetime. In a whirlwind two-week tour, I would see London and then travel to Turkey to sail the Mediterranean isles of the southern coast. It was marvelous...
...different story, though. Unlike much of the Mediterranean in the summertime, where tourists are packed on beaches like sardines, Turkey was breathtakingly serene and surprisingly unadulterated. We lived for a week on the 75-foot sailing vessel Acanthus, navigating the incredibly calm, warm, clear waters of the Turkish coast. The sea in this region is dotted with tiny, mountainous islands covered with nothing but trees, rocks and, occasionally, goats. There are no giant hotels spoiling the landscape, and boats are certainly the preferred mode of transportation--most of the places we visited could be reached only by water...
...next morning as we had breakfast, Coast Guard helicopters clattered back and forth across the Sound, flying low, searching in patient grid patterns. I logged on to check my e-mail, and saw a news headline: "JFK JR.'S PLANE MISSING...
...gimbal, the Andrea Gail tossed and turned while the actors (in addition to Clooney and Wahlberg, the boat's crew includes John C. Reilly, Allen Payne, John Hawkes and William Fichtner) employed their craft amid wind machines and torrents of pelting water. Meanwhile, just up the California coast at ILM headquarters in San Rafael, near San Francisco, animators awaited footage so it could be digitally plugged into the computer-generated storm...