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...Send Me Bruckheimer and Bay! Time to rewrite those history books; earlier this week divers confirmed the discovery of a downed Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor. The sunken sub appears to corroborate a long-held theory that the U.S., not the Japanese, fired the first shot in the Pacific war. The submarine is believed to have gone down just hours before the Japanese began their surprise aerial attack. Let's just hope this new information doesn?t mean we have to watch a remake of "Pearl Harbor...
...Genoa for the G-8 summit; Tenet had intelligence that al-Qaeda was planning to attack Bush there. The Italians, who had heard the same report (the way European intelligence sources tell it, everyone but the President's dog "knew" an attack was coming) put frogmen in the harbor, closed airspace around the town and ringed it with antiaircraft guns...
...Georgian officials claimed. Film from the Pankisi Gorge, a valley in the northern Caucasus Mountains, showed large craters on a hillside and dead sheep, said to have been killed in the strike. Russia denied the allegations but accused Georgia of sheltering Chechen terrorists. The U.S., worried that Pankisi could harbor al-Qaeda activists, has sent soldiers to Georgia to train antiterrorism forces...
...such as hijiki and nori were imported from Japan last year, up from 554 tons in 2000. Larch Hanson, proprietor of Maine Seaweed Co., has seen orders triple in two years. "Seaweed is healthy, and people are more health conscious," says Bill Morrison, owner of Seaweed Cafe in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Other companies, trying to expand the market for the plants, are peddling them as "sea vegetables...
...city of 450,000, built at the apex of a deep harbor, creeps up the precipitous mountainsides. Its atmosphere reflects a myriad of influences. Chinese temples share streets with grocery markets. The aroma of fresh-baked Portuguese castella cakes wafts out of bakeries standing amid sake bars decorated with red lanterns. Victorian-style European buildings have been preserved at Glover Gardens, a well-tended hilltop refuge named for Scotsman Thomas Glover who made his fortune in shipbuilding in Japan in the late 1800s. According to local lore, Glover's home inspired the setting for Puccini's Madame Butterfly...