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Diplomats describe the Taba dispute as "symbolic," if only because, on its merits, the spat is so thoroughly ludicrous. Taba is a 750-yd. stretch of beach front on the northern shore of the Gulf of Aqaba, which is shared by Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Yet for the past four years, Taba has helped chill relations between Israel and Egypt...
...firm, defaulted on some $1.1 billion in bank loans. The Hunts and their lenders had not been able to agree on a plan to renegotiate the debt. The Hunts wanted Placid to hold off on making any bank payments so that the company could go ahead with aggressive off-shore drilling projects. The brothers were especially keen to develop a tract called Green Canyon, off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. But the bankers insisted that Placid should accelerate, not halt, its debt payments...
...Mayflower decided to send the women on shore first to do the laundry...
...Dalton radioed two other fishing craft in the area. The three boats loaded up and headed for the provincial capital of St. John's. On the way they met a Canadian fisheries patrol boat, which took on the 146 men, four women and five children and brought them to shore...
...emphasize wonders at the expense of precision, secure in the belief that no one would make the same arduous journey simply to contradict them. A colleague of Magellan's reported a strange sight in Patagonia: "One day, without anyone expecting it, we saw a giant, who was on the shore of the sea, quite naked, and was dancing and leaping, and singing, and whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head . . . He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist." After the dawn of the Enlightenment and the scientific method, eyewitness...