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...book, due out January 16 from conservative publisher Regnery, Hayworth calls for deploying active-duty troops to the border and considering a "border security fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico." Hayworth is unlikely to please the West Wing with his assertion about a chat he had at a House Republican retreat in West Virginia a year ago with White House senior adviser Karl Rove. When Hayworth criticized an Administration overture to Mexico, he writes, "Rove became somewhat exasperated and spluttered, 'You just don't want to help brown people, do you?'" A White House official says...
...whole deal, as 42 might say, was 43's idea. Looking for a way to showcase the U.S. relief effort after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami last December, George W. Bush wondered if his two immediate predecessors in the White House might be willing to suit up and hit the road. He asked his chief of staff, "Do you think they'd work together?" The easy, reflex answer would have been no. George Herbert Walker Bush and William Jefferson Clinton came from different generations, from different social classes and from opposing political parties. Their 1992 face-off wasn't exactly...
When you're lying on a beach in Mauritius and suddenly have the urge to surf?the Web that is, not the waves?you're in luck. The small (pop: 1.2 million) tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean was racing to become the first country in the world with complete wireless Internet coverage, but Macedonia laid claim to that title a few months ago. Mauritian officials say that Macedonia's wi-fi technology, which creates a number of hot-spot "clouds" to cover the country, could lead to connections dropping out. Mauritius is using the newer and fast-growing WiMax...
SOME OF CATHY DEALE'S BEST-SELLING products have nautical and shell motifs, even though many of the Zulu women who embroider them have never even seen the ocean, let alone a sailboat. But they don't seem to mind. Thanks to Deale's importing business, the craftswomen near Durban, South Africa, are living much better than ever before...
...live to tell tales of the marauding buccaneers who currently infest the sea-lanes of Southeast Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca ... Pleasure boats headed toward Bali from Hong Kong and Thailand are warned to stay away from the Celebes Sea. Cutlass and sword are pass?. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers...