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...stopping. "I thought my life after 70 was finished," says Saito, as weathered as a tugboat and as trim as a battleship. "But I could still keep doing things my way, with complete freedom." During his 244-day voyage, the modern-day Ulysses scared off a pirate with a flare gun and subsisted on rations, the occasional flying fish, blood-pressure tablets and rainwater. "It was no problem," he says. "Better than Tokyo city water...
...stomach injuries." Another guide eases nerves by repeating that passengers have nothing to fear, then asks them to pick up their bulletproof vests at the back of bus. He always gets a laugh. Real violence does some-times intrude. When the embers of the Troubles flare up, as they did during loyalist riots last month, the number of gawkers drops off. "But a week later we're pointing out the burn marks on the walls to them," says Lavelle. In that sense, the Troubles tourism mirrors the odd resilience of Northern Ireland's stuttering peace process. Last week, after...
...Kate White: I've heard so many people - people on my staff, for instance, who have gone over to the celebrity magazines - talk about what a pressure cooker that world is, and how people yell, tempers flare. You hear at times that it can be a murderous environment. Those are places where people work until 4:00 in the morning. It's not just dealing with news - it's dealing with this crazy news that you're never sure is true. You're hurting people's reputations and you're making fun of them. So you're doing kind...
...letter c, for controversy. In 2003 he became the head of the board, which oversees and funds public TV and radio. Since then, the Republican has fought what some conservatives consider PBS's liberal bias and been accused of partisanship. PBS has had a string of culture-war flare-ups, including a spat over an episode of the kids' program Postcards from Buster that featured two lesbian moms. Prominent Democrats last week called for Tomlinson's resignation, while some House Republicans tried to slash the CPB's funding by $100 million...
...astrophysical theory, would include an expanding cloud of glowing gas still visible from the earth. Finally, the brilliance of Sirius B's explosion would certainly have lasted for weeks or months and provided an unforgettable spectacle for those on earth. But there are no known records of a dramatic flare-up of Sirius...