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...share the ocean. On the pro scene, 100 women are competing, twice as many as five years ago (800 men compete professionally). The women's prize money for each of the six competitions in the World Championship Tour (W.C.T.)--which is host to events on beaches in Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, Portugal, France and Hawaii--has doubled, although at $60,000, it's hardly a treasure...
...Equator Initiative, a public-private group, is publicizing examples of sustainable development in the equatorial belt. Among the projects already cited are one to help restore marine fisheries in Fiji and another that promotes beekeeping as a source of supplementary income in rural Kenya. The Global Conservation Trust hopes to raise $260 million to help conserve genetic material from plants for use by local agricultural programs. "When you approach sustainable development from an environmental view, the problems are global," says the U.N.'s Malloch Brown. "But from a development view, the front line is local, local, local...
...skis in 1996, after being approached by Nike to train for Nagano on the company dime. He is still competing using money from Nike and the Kenyan Olympic Committee. Other lone athletes have also struck it lucky with sponsorship. Swiss businessman Toni Hauswirth, who owns property in Fiji, took out an ad in a Fijian newspaper in 1999 offering an all-expenses paid trip to the Olympics (training base in Switzerland included) for the most promising ski candidate. Laurence Thoms, a ski instructor in New Zealand with a Fijian mother and passport, beat out the other applicants, none of whom...
...flights to and from the U.S. fly half or even one-quarter full. Countries across the region dependent on tourism are bracing for a downturn that will be "extensive and severe," says John Koldowski, spokesman for the Pacific Asia Travel Association. Destinations favored by Americans?like Hawaii, the Philippines, Fiji, Japan and Taiwan?will be particularly hard...
...international locales on a semi-daily basis. These findings, after all, provide us with a great excuse for extending our vacations: You wanted me back at the office for that board meeting next week? Ooh, sorry. No can do. I?ve recently learned that returning from Fiji so quickly could be dangerous to my spatial cognitive functioning. And I really can?t imagine you?d want an employee hampered by such a terrible impediment hanging around the office...