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...spent 60 days in a Dutch jail under accusation of ramming a Norwegian whaling vessel. In 2002, he was forced to flee Costa Rica after ramming an illegal shark fishing boat. And last month, a Japanese Coast Guard marksman allegedly shot him as he attacked an illegal whaling ship in the South Pacific Whale Sanctuary—the bullet lodged in his Kevlar vest...
...funny—they pick people who are really social and have a lot of friends, and then ship all their friends off to i-banking jobs in New York,” she said. “It’s a bit weird at first, but you adjust...
...lust and love. De Bernières uses their emotional confusion to comment on the power of storytelling, and its effects on the storyteller. Roza begins to worry that Chris will lose interest in her, so her stories grow ever more fanciful: in one, she gains passage on a ship by seducing the captain with her cooking. It's a tension that reflects De Bernières' friendship with the real Roza, who vanished from his life three decades ago: "Even today I'm not actually sure whether or not her stories were true...
...mention cooling to the researchers behind the Phoenix Mars Lander. Their ship will have just six months to sample and study the water ice at the Martian north pole before -200F (-130C) winter temperatures hit the region. "We last until the sun goes down. Then we freeze to death," says principal investigator Peter Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Before it does, Phoenix Lander will probably offer a first look at actual Martian water ice rather than the dry water scars of millenniums past. To do that, the lander will...
...Rich Russians are following the lead of homegrown multibillionaire Roman Abramovich. He owns three yachts, including the 377-ft. (115 m) Pelorus, and reportedly has a fourth under construction in Germany--the aptly named Eclipse, which at 509 ft. (155 m) would be the world's biggest privately owned ship...