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Laying his nets under the night sky, Brando Cervantes often gazed across the waters at the golden lights of the exclusive Dos Palmas resort. What would it be like to spend time there, a fisherman among the rich and the foreign, playing tennis, taking a jacuzzi, sipping cocktails? At 4 a.m. on May 27, Cervantes was checking his nets with helper Alvics Cabilo, 21, when over the horizon came the throbbing of huge horsepower, more powerful than anything normally found in the waters off the Philippines' rugged western Palawan province. The speedboat had no lights; only when it pulled alongside...
...Despite the fearsome reputation of the Abu Sayyaf, cemented in 1995 when the group massacred 53 civilians in a two-hour rampage in the southern town of Ipil, it is far from being a disciplined precision force. Cervantes, the fisherman, says the guerrillas were way off course when they spotted his lights. "They kept asking where Dos Palmas was," he says. The sky was getting light when they finally arrived at 5 a.m. on tiny Arreceffi island. Disarming the security guards, the gunmen went straight for the cabanas on stilts over the water, which go for $720 per couple...
Rubin is an avid fly fisherman who often flies his own plane to remote areas in order to pursue his hobby. On one occasion, Rubin flew his own plane to Vermont so he could fish after speaking at an engagement...
...such standards are less likely to be followed in parks outside the U.S. In Cuba, the source for many of the dolphins that end up in Caribbean aquariums, a fisherman can earn more than a year's income by selling a wild dolphin on the black market for about $800. Once trained, that same dolphin can fetch $1,500 a day at a Caribbean park. Several cases have been reported of dolphins suffering from stress, chlorine toxicity or an overdose of human affection. "Dolphins don't just drop out of the sky and end up in tanks," says Gwen McKenna...
...Sound of Paste," the shockwaves of a man's spilled toothpaste devastate a distant planet, revolutionizing its social order, while he goes to sleep with clean teeth. "Fishin' Trip" has two fisherman pals part ways when one enters into satorial oneness with the universe while the other catches an incredible amount of fish. "That Johnny's missing out," says the lucky angler...