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...Louis Majesty wasn't hit by a sudden storm or any of the other expected dangers of maritime travel. Rather, it may have been the victim of rogue waves. For centuries mariners have told stories about sudden waves that would emerge out of the open ocean without warning, strong enough to topple even large ships. The S.S. Waratah, which vanished on a journey to Cape Town; the M.S. München, lost en route to Savannah, Ga.; even the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, "the good ship and true" of the Gordon Lightfoot song, which disappeared on Lake Superior - all were rumored...
...affiliate. Although the current owners of this mixed martial arts league bought the company for $2 million, Forbes Magazine now rates the company at just over $1 billion. It is not the rise in the popularity of this brutal “sport” that is so shocking; rather, it is the shift in the nature of spectator sports in general that UFC signals that makes this new phenomenon so notable...
...themselves as adults. Onlookers of Ultimate Fighting thus know exceedingly little about the seriousness of the action and inevitably become distanced from the athletic experience. With less appreciation of the fitness, strength, and agility that is required of the athletes in these bouts, a fan will objectify these men rather than empathize with them as they might a baseball player or a basketball player...
...anything, it's the greatest plus to the resort." The said resort is Ritz-Carlton's Phulay Bay - the first of a new type of supersecluded, ultra-luxurious bolt-holes that the chain calls "reserves." It is one that Bunnag designed, and he was clearly preoccupied with rather more than the color of the curtains. "If the designer knows how to be in harmony with the cosmic forces," he says grandly, "with the sun, the moon, the breeze, the horizon, the shadows, the more dramatic the guest's experience will...
...warmer Franco-Russian feelings notwithstanding, reminders of Russia's independence - and frequent defiance of the West - remained apparent this week in Paris. Following Sarkozy's rather fiery remarks that a France-Russia partnership could help establish a new hard line on Iran's nuclear program, Medvedev responded tepidly, saying, "We will concentrate all efforts on finding political and diplomatic solutions," which he added had "not been exhausted yet." For his part, Sarkozy noted during the visit that Russia has still not fulfilled the conditions of its 2008 cease-fire with Georgia. (See pictures of the Russians in Ossetia...