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...boat had much closer races leading to the final, including one of the closest races of the regatta in the semifinals against a South African club which was decided by a mere third of a length. Riffelmacher said the race was too close to call from shore...
...plagues of tormenting "musquetors." We know about the Indians who helped them, and we know that they had to eat dogs and horses to survive. We are in the canoe with Clark when he writes, "Ocian in view! O! the joy," straining to hear the waves breaking on the shore he had sought for so long...
...horses sometimes used ropes to pull the boats from shore or from the water...
...that created the Indonesian archipelago also gave Selayar Island its unique geography?the western side of the island slopes gently into the sea, but the eastern side's verdant hills plunge directly into the roiling surf, as if they were hacked in half with a machete. Thirty meters from shore, this geographic slicing is repeated underwater. The island mass stops abruptly in a vertical fall to the ocean floor, some 1,000 meters below. Unlike the dynamite-ravaged reefs that surround much of Selayar, the sheer rock face remains untouched and teems with varieties of fish, crustaceans and corals most...
...have been expecting too much from the event. Despite big promotion campaigns, Japan's J-League has seen attendance figures drop from highs of about 20,000 per game in 1994 to just 16,000 earlier this year, leading critics to warn that if the league couldn't even shore up attendance on the eve of the World Cup, it might not get a boost after it. Korea's league continues to hemorrhage cash, and sports officials worry that the nation's insta-football fans will soon abandon the game, especially because many of Korea's heroes will likely...