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...with the chatty master of Barge Express VIII, who alters course. "Roger that! Roger that! Roger that!" replies Radon, eager to escape an inquisition. He needs to go below to wake Joe Homer for the next watch; before Radon can bunk down, he must fill out the log and finish the chart. By the time he wakes, Hervey Bay will be back where it was 24 hours ago, off Dalrymple, waiting for a Papuan drug trafficker. It's Sunday morning and Coastwatch planes are in the bright skies over the Strait, Fitzy's listening to Macca on the radio...
John Cole, who, like Lawler, spent his the 2003-2004 academic year away from the University to dedicate himself to Olympic training, placed 14th in the 28-man 1,500-meter freestyle field—two spots below his finish two years...
Though Pangilinan’s finish was not high enough to place her in the United States final, she was subsequently named to the Olympic squad of her father’s native Philippines as the country’s sole female swimming representative and will travel to Athens to compete in late August...
...next day, we take a bus to the Pyrenees—Devin to hike into Spain, me to research at the foot of glaciers. When I come back to Lourdes a few days later to finish my work, I have no thunderous emotional reaction. Lourdes is old hat, and I'm all business. I check off addresses and check out new restaurants for Let's Go. Finally, I'm ready to leave...
...school at high rates, some critics wonder whether parents should put emphasis on such opulent revelry and are trying to modify the tradition. "We deemphasize the big party," says Graciela Fonseca, who oversees Stay-in-School Quinceanera, a program at the Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho that helps kids finish school. For most participants, however, the event is about much more than the trappings. "It's an opportunity to express your maturity and be thankful," says Marlowe Veloz, a Miami teen who just celebrated her quince aboard a cruise. "Every girl should have that, whether she's Hispanic...