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...shocked at the level of discipline and training the rebels had shown to fight their way into the city. So there we were, drinking at the bar, eating eggs and avoiding Freetown's usually delicious seafood because we had seen the bodies in the water and knew what the fish were eating, and hoping that the wall of Nigerian soldiers between ourselves and the rebels would hold...
Easter Sunday was just another day in paradise for James and Mary Murphy of Rochester, N.Y. They had come to the $250-a-night resort of Sipadan Island, off the east coast of Malaysia, to swim among the coral, turtles and parrot fish. But that evening, as they dined with the other tourists, six armed assailants turned up. Shouting "Move it, goddam, move it!" the intruders ordered everyone to swim to boats waiting offshore...
...factor was the rapacious overuse of resources. The goats, pigs and sheep brought by the Norse ate or trampled the forests and shrub lands, eventually transforming them into bare ground. Without enough fodder, the farm animals could not survive. The Norse were forced to eat more seal, seabirds and fish--and these too became locally scarce. The depletion of Greenland's meager trees and bushes meant no wood for fuel or for repairing ships...
...musical display took place on Friday night, when Reel Big Fish opened up for headliners They Might Be Giants in one of MIT's athletic buildings. Reel Big Fish, however, seemed to steal the show, as fans moshed and crowd surfed to their typically energetic songs like "Sell Out," "Somebody Hates Me" and their popular cover of A-Ha's "Take On Me." While Reel Big Fish seemed to appeal to a wider audience through their energy alone, TMBG, a much more quirky, eclectic band, were not so lucky. However, MIT is a rather quirky school in its own right...
...clearly would like to put this issue behind us," Galluccio says. "We have bigger fish...