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...they were flight attendants who adored flying to glamorous destinations for American Airlines. The next, they were on the front line of a war. For Jones and Moutardier, that transformation happened the day two planes from their airline were used in the biggest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor. They simply didn't know it then...
...half a century ago, too young to remember her country's brutal subjugation of Koreans during World War II. But as a Japanese, she feels a collective guilt for the sins of an older generation. "I'm sorry," she says suddenly, bowing in the direction of Wonsan's sweeping harbor, where a huge bronze statue of North Korea's late paramount ruler Kim Il Sung gazes down over parks, bland apartment blocks and children playing along the waterfront. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," she repeats, bowing again and again...
...when Sigler docks the boat successfully, her mood swells like a mainsail. She can do this, she realizes--and within a few weeks, she and her husband Alex, 36, who like her is taking lessons at Miami's Castle Harbor Sailing School this summer, will be certified to sail solo in a basic keelboat. "We don't drink, smoke or party a lot," says Sigler, "so when we go on vacation or a business trip to a place like the Bahamas, we want to sail...
...different craft and scene for the weekend up the coast in San Francisco, or take a weeklong vacation cruise in the Adriatic, with a boat rented out of Venice. "People make more money today, but they've got less leisure time," says Cai Svendsen, owner of Castle Harbor. "So it's not that they can't afford to own a boat; many are just too smart...
...sailboat-rental agencies report a jump in business from European and Latin American executives. Many of their sailing schools at home have adopted U.S. certification standards, and they can use that "passport" in Yankee waters. Castle Harbor has contracted with U.S. Olympic sailing gold medalist Magnus Liljedahl to teach corporate groups, who hope that learning mainsheets might help improve their balance sheets. So who said sailing was supposed to be relaxing...