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Here is a parenting parable for our age. Carla Wagner, 17, of Coral Gables, Fla., spent the afternoon drinking the tequila she charged on her American Express Gold Card before speeding off in her high-performance Audi A4. She was dialing her cell phone when she ran over Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old honor student who was out Rollerblading. Charged with drunken driving and manslaughter, Carla was given a trial date--at which point her parents asked the judge whether it would be O.K. if Carla went ahead and spent the summer in Paris, as she usually does...
Armando Kraenzlin personally owns a paradise isle. An isolated coral haven of white sand and palms set in the azure Philippine Sea, it is the picture of Pacific perfection. But Kraenzlin doesn't get to go much. As head of the Four Seasons resort in the Maldives, he spends his days trying to give to thousands of others an experience that, give or take a man Friday, should strictly be solitary. "We all fantasize about a desert island, like Robinson Crusoe, with nothing on it but a palm tree," he says. "That's paradise." It's a measure...
...That nature should punish a country that tries so hard to serve it seems deeply unfair. But in 1998, El NiNo warmed the seas, bleaching and killing much of the fantastical underwater coral. Fears surfaced that the rainbows of multicolored reef fish and legions of turtles, sharks and manta rays that made the Maldives a high point of the diving world would depart for richer shores. In the end, the fish stayed and the coral is now growing back. But global climate changes remain a concern. The Maldives stretch 800 km, but less than 300 sq km is land...
...Currently, Henderson is guiding the ship in the Coral...
...Currently, Henderson is guiding the ship in the Coral...