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Think you'll try it again? If the wave's still there, I'll ride it. But another album really isn't on my radar. In the normal music business, people would be getting ready for what's coming next, but I never was in the normal music business...
...exists offers some peace of mind in an era of terrorism and illegal immigrants. A tight border-control regime means shuffling money, people, electronics, boats and airplanes to cover the most likely - and highest-risk - incursions. Yet even with state-of-the-art technology like high-frequency surface wave radar and tiny unmanned aerial vehicles, Australia must also rely on the international justice system, the goodwill of neighbors and well-publicized prosecutions to ensure that border security is more than just an idea...
...Botany Bay drops anchor a nautical mile from the Duncan Islands. Coastwatch has called the ACV with an update of the FFV's location. Because radar can't detect small boats, the binoculars are out on the bridge. The FFV is spotted! There's a rush of excitement and purpose as the four officers who make up a boarding party assemble on the aft deck and load up their kits: life jackets, 9-mm Glock semi-automatics, telescopic batons, capsicum spray, handcuffs, assorted tools, water supply, radio. The sailors climb aboard an outboard-powered tender which is lowered into...
...midnight-to-0200 watch, Radon, anchored off Gabba, monitors instruments and prepares a chart for the next journey. The Torres Strait is a difficult stretch to chart, sometimes requiring 60 wavepoints (or map references) on a single passage. On a radar screen, what appears to be a barge is on course to cross 900 m in front of the ACV's bow. That's too close for comfort, and a warning light begins to flash. On VHF channel 16, after several attempts, Radon makes contact with the chatty master of Barge Express VIII, who alters course. "Roger that! Roger that...
...even as Kerry asked around, he didn't tell much of what he was thinking--that, for instance, he was giving his Senate colleague Joe Biden more serious consideration than even his top aides suspected. Only Johnson, Cahill and scheduler Alyssa Mastromonaco, who was charged with the under-the-radar logistics, ever really knew which potential running mates Kerry was talking to and when. Mastromonaco arranged Kerry's secret meeting with Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack in San Francisco, but Dick Gephardt blew his cover when reporters caught him sneaking into Kerry's hideaway office in the Capitol. Kerry insisted...