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...wind and filled with a snap. Some guests pitched in to help, others baited hooks and fished off the stern. A few hours later we arrived at a pristine beach surrounded by coral heads at the southern tip of the island. Divers readied their gear and plunged directly overboard while snorkelers and shell gatherers headed to the beach in a dinghy. Later that afternoon, a small fishing boat pulled alongside the Marco Polo to reveal a hold full of the day's catch. After a few minutes of haggling, the fisherman agreed to $5 and hoisted three meter-long tuna...
Even if you keep in mind that Norman Mailer will turn 80 in January, you still pause when he puts a hearing aid behind each of those notable ears. "The body is like an old boat in stormy seas," he shrugs. "To stay afloat, you keep throwing ballast overboard. All the senses go--hearing, eyesight, smell...
DIED. DEAN BUMPUS, 89, oceanographer who littered the Atlantic with tens of thousands of bottles to study the ocean's currents; in Woods Hole, Mass. He asked seabound friends and strangers to dump overboard boxfuls of bottles--each with a note asking its finder to send a postcard with the place and date of its discovery, in exchange for 50 [cents]. The project helped track weather and fish patterns; postcards are still coming...
Over the course of their relationship, Spears and Timberlake were forced to prove their love in order to dispel such slanderous rumors. What could have been a normal, healthy relationship went overboard in displaying what it means to be in love. At every interview or public appearance, they mentioned the other; at every free moment, they stole away to see each other. They even wore matching outfits to many awards shows. Reports came out that they were going to publish a book of their love letters. And just when the last Doubting Thomas was becoming a true believer, the relationship...
...enemy fire, there have been other U.S. military deaths related to the war in Afghanistan. In early December, three special operations troops were accidentally killed during a U.S. airstrike over Kandahar. Two soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Pakistan, one perished in another accident, another was swept overboard en route to the region and a CIA operative died in the Mazar-e-sharif prison uprising...