Word: oceaneering
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...hopes of new privileges--bottled water and a cup, a checkerboard and checkers, more exercise time. There are three juvenile prisoners, ages 13 to 15, who live outside the gates of Camp Delta at Camp Iguana. Once an officer's cottage, it has a magnificent view of the ocean, which none of the underage detainees had seen before coming to Guantanamo. Inside are two bedrooms, each with two beds, and a room with a TV and a VCR. Videos with animals are popular with the kids; their favorites include White Fang and The Call of the Wild. The kitchen...
...experience with juveniles. "We do a lot of math and science with them," he says. "We don't try to indoctrinate them in Americanism." The juveniles pick up English quickly, he notes. Outdoors, the teenagers play soccer, boccie and volleyball. "We've lost quite a few balls to the ocean," he says...
...cavernous hall of a dazzling white palace that rises out of the Indian Ocean, the tiny President of one of the world's smallest countries wriggles forward in his armchair, plants tiptoes on the floor and begins the story of his revolutionary days. It's a little-known epic of how a humble teacher endured oppression, rose to lead his island people against a tyrant and finally triumphed, uniting the palm-lined Maldives. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom wears a saintly smile as he stresses that he "did not seek" greatness but rather "a lot of people wanted me to be President...
Inspired equally by the ocean, forest animals and Joy Division, the three-year-old band has risen quickly in profile. Since the release of their debut, they have enjoyed glowing, awestruck reviews from music publications on both sides of the Atlantic. They have also developed an infamous stage show that now features locally pruned foliage, a few toy birds and a stunning, seasick climax that—so far—stands as their greatest achievement...
...killed by a machete in a settling of accounts on the nearby banana plantation. Then there was the fishing town full of men mutilated because they had been too slow to throw the sticks of dynamite they used to stun the fish. Or the first time he saw the ocean, full of dead chickens. He's still not sure...