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Those more experienced in the ways of the sea knew what was coming next. At the luxury Amanpuri Resort in Phuket, Richie Neustfisten was helping run the resort's water-skiing fleet when he noticed that the water had disappeared. He called his boss, Bill O'Leary, an Australian in charge of the Amanpuri boatyard, who was at sea with clients. O'Leary knew the signs. He told Neustfisten to get everyone off the beach and called friends at other hotels to tell them a tsunami was coming. The Amanpuri beach was cleared. About five minutes later, the waves started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sea of Sorrow | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...year-old Harvard graduate named David Adeang. Since becoming Finance Minister in the new government of President Ludwig Scotty, the popular Adeang has been fighting to revive what was once one of the world's wealthiest countries. As a young boy, Adeang used to watch the country's fleet of new planes roll up and down the island's runway, and its cargo ships race in and out of port. Now Nauru can only afford to pay him and his fellow ministers, including the nation's president, $A100 a fortnight. Even the minister must rely on relatives catching fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Nauru Get a Second Chance? | 12/14/2004 | See Source »

...Cars in the D.C. area now powered by hydrogen fuel cells, all part of a congressional fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Nov. 22, 2004 | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

Mahan said that the situation the council found itself in last spring, when 93 checks bounced, was not due to over-spending or over-budgeting, but rather to a transfer problem between the council’s $330,000 account with the University and its Fleet bank account, which currently contains...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale, HoCos to Help Foot Bill | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

Kovacs and Tulloch rounded out Harvard’s fleet with two more top finishes...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Sailors Cruise, Eye Fowle Cup | 10/26/2004 | See Source »

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