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...YEAR OF THE SPILL The waters near Cordova, Alaska, were coated with oil, killing hundreds of thousands of animals and effectively destroying the livelihoods of many residents depending on the fishing industry...
Associate principal bass player Jon Deak later said he was near tears. So too was assistant concertmaster Michelle Kim, a descendant of a North Korean family. "Tonight I didn't feel South Korean or North Korean, but Korean," she said. U.S. diplomats present were euphoric. Former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry, who once presented plans to President Bill Clinton for bombing the North's nuclear sites, gushed that the evening "may have pushed us over the top" when it comes to negotiating about the North's nuclear-weapons program...
Nick Hexum, lead singer of the reggae-rock band 311, bought a 5.5-acre mango-tree-lined island near Key West, Fla., as a getaway from his hectic touring life. Fittingly, he changed its name from Money Key to Melody Key. His house rests on stilts and is built in the shape of two hexagons in order to better weather hurricanes. It has a pool, air-conditioning and Internet access. Hexum spends much of his time there snapper-fishing and scuba-diving. "Maybe it's too sleepy for some people, but that's what I go down there...
...royal clan on a backwater planet, but she is recruited into the Culture. Her brother Ferbin remains behind on their primitive home world. (Which is, incidentally, not a regular planet but a Shellworld, a synthetic planet constructed as a set of concentric spheres. At its center dwells a massive, near omnipotent alien deity. No one knows why; it just moved in one day.) When their father is murdered, the siblings must bring about justice and also come to terms with what Djan Seriy has become...
...HARVARD GOAL--Michael Biega gets a shot from up top, Dekanich makes the block but Rogers gathers in the rebound near the left post, swoops back around to the right and puts it in. A 5-on-4 goal and a 3-3 game. The huge special-teams opportunity hadn't been going very well up to that point, as the Crimson had spent a lot of time passing it around the top of the Colgate zone without generating too much in the way of pressure...