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What to Do. The main activity on this hook-shaped archipelago of islands is, as you might expect, taking in its natural beauty. Divers come here to explore the abundant coral reefs that surround Bermuda, along with the dozens of historic shipwrecks that are now inhabited by a wide variety of marine life. Some wreck sites are shallow enough for snorkelers to view, including the Constellation, which sank in 1943 about eight miles off the coast of Bermuda en route to Venezuela with a hull full of medicines and whiskey. The ship, which now lies 30 feet underwater...
Where to Eat. Restaurants, especially at the resorts, are expensive, and most of them expect guests to dress for dinner - for men that means Bermuda shorts, knee socks and a jacket. Not your style? Adventuresome souls can check out the local scene at out-of-the-way spots like Dennis's Hideaway (Cashew City Road; 441-297-0444) on St. David's Island, east of the airport (most places you'd want to go to are west). Dennis wears a brown paper bag for a chef's hat and serves food on plastic plates, but he makes a killer fish...
...home to reclaim his roots with a vengeance. At James Kitchen Big Secret, tel: (886-2) 2343 2275, on Yongkang Street's restaurant row (and at James Kitchen Small Secret, a nearby storefront that takes the inevitable overflow) the menus are primers of the island's homespun culinary techniques. Expect soups and stews that are a tangy mélange of dried fish, cabbage and pumpkin, supplemented by clams and grilled-whole local catches. Omelets come filled with radish and bamboo. Subtle spring onions from nearby Yilan county inform strips of salted pepper pork. It's good, rustic stuff, harking...
...while the stimulus plan may eventually reach its goal, a look at the paper Romer and Bernstein wrote back in January shows that at least for now, the stimulus plan is at best off to a slow start. The two economists did say in the report that they expect the bulk of the jobs created by the stimulus to happen in 2010 and 2011. Nonetheless, the report says that even by the middle of this year, the stimulus bill would have a positive effect on the unemployment rate. Without the stimulus, the two economists predicted, the unemployment rate would rise...
...Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But the controversy over such programs goes back decades. It was President Lyndon Johnson who first attempted to combat inequality with laws taking race, ethnicity and gender into account. In a 1965 speech at Howard University, he argued that one could not expect a person "who, for years, has been hobbled by chains" to be able to compete with everyone else. Since then, supporters have praised the employment and education opportunities affirmative action has given minority candidates, while opponents have blasted it for taking those opportunities away from equally deserving whites...