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...been served with tea: "He was a diabetic and couldn't eat anything with sugar in it." At their next meeting, the Americans brought him some sugar-free cookies, a gesture that took the edge off Abu Jandal's angry demeanor. "We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him," Soufan recalls. "So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures...
...called for short, looks exactly as it sounds: you stand on a large surfboard and propel yourself forward with a paddle. But, unlike traditional surfing, you don't have to wait for the waves. In fact, SUP, which is wildly popular, can be done on lakes, rivers, pools or any sufficiently large body of water. "It's completely blown up in the past five years and every spring it just blows up even more," says Jim Brewer, 45, a painting contractor who, in October 2008 and in spite of everyone calling him nuts, opened Blueline Stand-Up Paddle Surf...
...company, it was pretty obvious that it had the potential to be bigger than windsurfing. Then I thought, 'This is going to be as big as surfing.' And now I think it's going to be bigger than windsurfing, kitesurfing, surfing - everything put together - because it can be done anywhere...
...much poorer Northern brethren. "What we're unhappy with is the fact that even if we send them aid, they don't use it for their people and instead spend everything on buying weapons," complains Kim Chang Bok, a 76-year-old retiree. "Seeing what they've done, I don't think we need to send aid." Even South Koreans who would like to see their government change its policy and provide financial support to the North still don't want to return to the old "sunshine policy" days of one-way concessions. They increasingly expect North Korea to reciprocate...
...group photograph outside the courthouse, the families refused to describe the judgment as any kind of hollow victory. "People threw doubt on whether we would ever get justice," says Edmund Gibson, a former policeman whose sister Esther was killed in the bomb attack. "What we have done today is defied the odds...