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...time I wanted to, but I stopped kidding myself years ago. My e-mail program is up and running 24 hours a day, and once I submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...STEP 12: TAKE TIME OFF. Designate one day a week that is utterly e-mail free. That goes double for cruise-ship vacations...
...could be targeted; the country's 103 nuclear power plants were placed on heightened alert; and new, cryptic FBI dispatches warned of the remote possibility of small-aircraft kamikazes and scuba-diver offensives--perhaps, a source tells TIME, to place a limpet mine on the hull of a cruise ship...
...historian and author of A Night to Remember, the seminal account of the Titanic disaster, upon which 1997's Oscar-winning film was based; after a battle with Parkinson's disease; in New York City. As a boy, Lord became fascinated with the sinking of the world's biggest ship after finding a slim volume on the tragedy in his aunt's home. His meticulous approach to reconstructing events--he interviewed 63 of the survivors--turned the 1955 book into a best seller...
...complain that nuclear power and wind power go together about as well as oil and water. New Zealand sailors are particularly incensed because the America's Cup village in Auckland, where the competition is based, is just meters away from where French secret agents blew up Greenpeace's protest ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. When Le D?fi tried to launch its new boat recently, anti-nuke activists in inflatables crowded the port at Lorient, Brittany and a Greenpeace dinghy hit the French yacht, damaging its hull. In best America's Cup tradition, Le D?fi threatened to sue. "This...