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...Later, when Kennedy rejoined his crewmates on Olasana, he carved a message into a green coconut husk: nauro isl native knows posit he can pilot 11 alive need small boat kennedy. The skipper asked the two islanders to take the note to a naval base at Rendova Harbor, 60 km away. The pair sought out another scout, with whom they took the message to Australian Coastwatcher Reg Evans. Based on Kolombangara, Evans had been on watch the night PT 109 went up in flames. The U.S. authorities had all but given up hope of finding the missing...
...refused entry, I bade farewell to the Heineken vending machines and ceramic cows peppering Monte Carlo and accepted the hand of Owen, our captain, as he heaved me back onto the ship’s deck. We made our way back to Le Port du Crouton, a bite-sized harbor in the French Riviera town of Juan-les-Pins where I was staying for a week. I had taken a far too-short hiatus from the paling lights of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital (the site of my summer internship) to bathe...
...History (1892), his journalistic account of the cultural friction that greeted his 1889 arrival in Apia. Samoa was shaping up as the site of a naval conflict between Germany and the U.S., backed by Britain, but war was averted when a hurricane sank several battleships in Apia's harbor. Stevenson prophetically saw the disaster - which led to the signing of the Berlin Treaty - as a historical turning point. With its personal reportage, using fictional techniques, A Footnote was also a pioneering work of journalism...
Corriero admittedly asked friends and acquaintances to cast votes on her behalf in the weeks leading up to the presentation of the award in the fan-balloting-determined category, but did not harbor high hopes for bringing home the trophy...
...after a couple of days of attacks, he announced he would sever ties with the magazines. "I don't want there to be any question or doubt that the people have my full devotion," he said in a statement. It remains to be seen whether the people of California harbor such doubts; his approval ratings have already plummeted to 37%, down from 57% a year ago. "A lot of voters were looking to him to be their hero," says Kim Alexander of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. Now he's looking dangerously like a politician. --By Laura A. Locke