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What could be more idyllic than a day at the beach, especially if you're an overworked salaryman with little leisure time to spare? But the weather can also be unpredictable, the waves petulant and uneven, the flotsam yucky. Now those who don't want to risk a less than perfect holiday can frolic at the Seagaia complex in Miyazaki, on the Japanese island of Kyushu, 930 miles south of Tokyo. The ocean that surges and rolls within it, chlorinated and free of salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed...
...trial judge concluded that Shaw was mentally functional and refused to instruct the jury that they could take mental retardation into account when deciding their verdict. The jury found him guilty. The defense then asked that the court not "sully" its hands with a death sentence for this "flotsam on the sea of life." The judge sentenced Bobby Shaw to death...
...will be interested in reading Tabula Rasa's articles "of any length, on any subject"? It is difficult to see the excitement generated by another random magazine written by random people on random subjects. Tabula Rasa is just another piece of flotsam on the engorged stream of Harvard literary effluvia. One can imagine a future in which every student publishes his own magazine and calls himself editor-in-chief. This builds up the student resume, but also builds up the piles of wastepaper in our nation's already overcrowded landfills. Robert Meybank '94 John...
While France and Britain developed centralized monarchies in the late Middle Ages, the German empire remained a crazy quilt of kingdoms, duchies, bishoprics, free cities and other flotsam. In the late 13th century, the imperial crown came into the hands of a Swiss family named Habsburg, but the Habsburgs' only real power and wealth came from their family possessions in Austria and Bohemia; the Germanic Holy Roman Empire, a concept that exercised a magic attraction in the Middle Ages, had about as much authority as the United Nations has today...
Five years ago, when pro football players walked out for 57 days in a bid for a larger percentage of television spoils, the atmosphere was quite different. No substitutes walked in. Last week the flotsam and jetsam from past N.F.L. camps, the U.S.F.L. and summer Arena Football were bused past jeering and egg-throwing picketers and delivered into the hesitant custody of shell-shocked coaches. At first inspection, Ray Perkins of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers judged, "A few are in poor shape; a couple are in no shape at all." The Washington Redskins' Joe Gibbs said...