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...fishermen said the location where Darwin's kayak washed ashore defied tidal patterns. The turbulent sea had also been unusually placid that day. "It didn't add up," Young says. He recalls a search team member telling him, "We shouldn't be looking here. We should be looking in Malaga," the sun-drenched Spanish resort to which British holidaymakers decamp in droves...
...ever talk about non-tennis things with Roger Federer? Are you friends? -Rosario Pacheco, Malaga, Spain I suppose yes. We have a good relationship, we're friends. Although my English isn't fantastic, we certainly talk in the locker room...
...Malaga, on the Costa del Sol, in romantic Andalusia, home to Antonio Banderas and the capital of one of Spain's most sophisticated resort areas, is also a city where bullfights hold a hallowed place. Every August the feasts bring thousands of bullfighting fans to the Plaza de Toros. But this year, the bullfights are also bringing in something more. On August 11 the pro-animal rights group Andalusian Collective Against Animal Mistreatment (CACMA, according to its Spanish initials), will stage the first demonstration ever in Malaga against this most popular and gory of Spain's traditions...
...deeply ashamed of living in a country with such a tradition", she said last year at a meeting of her Socialist Party Barcelona. That has allowed more Spaniards to come out of the closet and say they are against bullfighting. CACMA expects 3,000 people to gather at their Malaga demonstration. "This is not a tradition to maintain, but to eradicate," says Moreno Abolafio. "We must cast away the cliche of Spain represented by a man dressed as a bullfighter and a woman as a flamenco dancer...
...DIED. Allen Carr, 72, onetime accountant and five-packs-a-day smoker who, in 1983, gave up cigarettes and fashioned himself into a smoking-cessation guru, penning the best-seller The Easy Way to Stop Smoking; of lung cancer; near Malaga, Spain. Carr believed smoking was less physically addictive than usually thought, and that the main obstacle to quitting was psychological. He later applied his fear-conquering strategies to other concerns, writing books on the easy way to stop worrying and to control alcohol consumption...