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...from the National Monitoring Centre in Canberra, asking Botany Bay to respond to a sighting by a Coastwatch surveillance plane of a suspected foreign fishing vessel (FFV) in Australian waters. Coastwatch has sent Canberra images of the boat showing crew retrieving longlines off the Duncan Islands group, 30 nautical mi. (55 km) north-west of Thursday Island. On the bridge of the 38-m vessel, the skipper accepts the task. He informs crew members of the mission and asks for a chart of the course. Leaning back in his seat, feet plonked on what anyone but a mariner would call...
...Instead, the Customs crew thinks, it will try to hide behind large rocks or in mosquito-infested mangroves. The boat's presence is unquestionably illegal. But the foreign fishers have few alternatives. Almost all of them are from Merauke, a village in Indonesia's Irian Jaya, about 145 nautical mi. (270 km) to the northwest. If they can avoid detection, the men could bring home a spectacular catch of shark fin (which can sell for $A200 a kg) and retire. The court houses and lock-ups on Thursday Island and in the Arnhem Land town of Nhulunbuy are stretched...
Enter Macau, the former Portuguese colony handed over to China in 1999. Last year some 12 million visitors poured into the 9-sq.-mi. territory, whose small contingent of casinos generated $3.6 billion in gaming revenue--three-fourths of what the Vegas Strip managed to pull in. Long a mecca for Asia's high rollers, Macau in 2003 averaged a daily haul of nearly $22,000 per gaming table compared with just $2,200 in Vegas. And thanks to the recent removal of certain internal travel restrictions, some 150 million mainlanders can now head to Macau without a tour guide...
...abuse from Major General Anthony Taguba, which were read to TIME, contain indications of mistreatment of female prisoners. In a Feb. 21 statement to Taguba, Lieut. Colonel Steven L. Jordan, former head of the Abu Ghraib interrogation center, said he had received reports "that there were members of the MI [military intelligence] community that had come over and done a late-night interrogation of two female detainees" last October. According to a statement by Jordan's boss, Colonel Thomas Pappas, three interrogators were later cited for violations of military law in their handling of the two females, ages...
...here they are, at Encores!, for us to follow in their ascendancy to Broadway stardom. In 1999, when Nathan Lane headlined a delicious revival of the Styne-Betty Comden-Adolph Green "Do Re Mi," the male and female second leads were Mitchell and Heather Headley; the following year those two won the Tony's top musical awards (for their work in "Kiss Me, Kate" and "Aida"). At Encores! the veterans also mix collegially with the newbies - as Mitchell and Gravitte did with the beautiful 19-year-old soprano Anne Hathaway (star of "The Cinderella Diaries" and "Ella Enchanted...