Word: fiji
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...century ago, the International Meridian Conference did Fiji a favor. The conferees laid out the international date line along the 180th meridian but put an eastward kink in it to keep the people of the far-flung islands of the Fijian archipelago on the same page of their day planners. Now Fijians are calling that good turn a bad one. Repudiating the date line as an artificial construct, they claim their country, which straddles the 180th line of longitude, will be the first to greet the year...
...week surrounding the New Year (from Dec. 26 to Jan. 3), a World Festival of Praise will be held in Suva. Millennium Hibiscus Celebrations, beginning Dec. 21, will honor Fiji's ethnic diversity, culminating in the coronation of the Hibiscus Millennium Queen in the capital at the moment when 1999 becomes...
...oceans." But Jean-Michel--architect, sailor, diver and filmmaker--apparently never enjoyed the confidence of his father. More commercial-minded than the Captain, Jean-Michel left the society in 1993 to produce environmental films. In 1995 Cousteau sued his son for using the family name on a Fiji Island resort. They settled out of court...
...work, for instance, is so thoroughly excluded from his paintings that he didn't even depict his own studio. His world was bounded by the bathroom, the breakfast room, the bedroom and the overgrown garden, its disorder of jasmine, honeysuckle and wisteria as exotically suffused with color as Fiji, though glimpsed through French windows...
...students were to move in this year and Fiji were to be later found at fault, the fraternity might be forced to close,leaving students without a place to live, he said...