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...spend quality time with his younger brother. When Danny finds a dilapidated board came called Zathura: A Space Adventure, his older brother is more inclined to watch Sports Center. By turning a key and pressing “Go,” Danny starts the game and two space ships move along the board. Like “Jumanji,” the game seems to have a mind of its own. Zathura promptly hurdles its two protagonists into a literal space adventure. For example, Danny’s space ship lands on a particular tile and a card pops...
...Diplomats from Kenya, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and the U.N. took over negotiations. A delegation flew to Somalia to talk to the transitional government and clan elders, warning that food aid could be halted unless the Semlow's crew was released. Meanwhile, life on board the ship fell into a pattern. The crew was forced to stay at the rear of the Semlow where they passed the time fishing and praying. Food quickly ran low and the crew rationed water. The pirates ate well, though, bringing goats, potatoes, tomatoes and onions from the mainland and cooking WFP rice. Every four...
...generator ran out of oil, the pirates accused the crew of hoarding it. One Somali fired a shot through the window on the bridge. "We thought this trip was the end of our lives," remembered able seaman Rashid Juma Mwatuga, 42. In late September the Ibn Batuta, an Egyptian ship carrying cement, appeared on the horizon. "The pirates told me they were going to hijack this passing ship," says Mahalingam. "What could I do?" The pirates jumped into their speedboats. Half an hour later the Egyptian ship's captain radioed the Semlow to say that he had been captured...
...from his wife, and was told he could fly home soon. When he phoned his sister in Sri Lanka, he broke down. "I told her I was safe but did not know when I was coming home," says Mahalingam. He and the chief engineer were taken back to the ship. A few days later, the pirates gathered their weapons, piled into their speedboats, and abandoned both the Semlow and the Ibn Batuta. The WFP denies paying any ransom-"It would set a bad precedent," said a WFP spokesman-but the Motaku Shipping Agency's Kudrati told TIME that...
...sent it to escort the Semlow to a Somali port where it could offload the rice it was still carrying. Mahalingam, who a fortnight ago finally made it back to Mombasa, four months after first setting out, and is now home in Sri Lanka, radioed the Torgelow, a sister ship that was carrying tea and coffee for Somali traders as well as food and oil for the Semlow. But instead of hearing the captain's voice on the radio, Mahalingam heard a familiar Somali accent. The pirates had their next catch...