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...least three separate investigations-one by the North Palmerston Coroner- will try to piece together what went wrong. The canyoning trip was run by the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre (OTC), which is reported to have had a flawless safety record since its inception in 1973. Experienced staff were supervising the Elim College children, who were decked out in wetsuits, helmets, flotation vests and harnesses. Conditions were fine when their outing on Mangatepopo River, part of the rugged, remote Tongariro National Park, began in the early afternoon...
...Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a world-renowned British science fiction writer who wrote over 100 novels and short stories, including “2001: A Space Odyssey” and its sequels, passed away last month in his adopted home of Sri Lanka...
...movies, TV and the stage never ran out of statesmen and supermen for Heston to play. He was Marc Antony (three times), Andrew Jackson (twice), Thomas Jefferson, Henry VIII, Cardinal Richelieu, Buffalo Bill. He did Macbeth on early live TV and Sir Thomas More in a small-screen revival of A Man for All Seasons. ( He wanted to play the role in the 1966 movie version, but lost out to Paul Scofield, who died last month.) Having cut his great white teeth on Broadway, Heston was the rare mid-century movie star who returned to the stage. Laurence Olivier directed...
...which followed in 2005, was a meditation on the function and symbolism of the heart, performed to a choral score by British composer Sir John Tavener, himself suffering from degenerative heart disease. McGregor and the Random dancers had their own hearts scanned and he even sat in on open-heart surgery. "I fainted," he admits ruefully...
...tendency to exaggerate, Watson embraces his image as a violent pirate. “We find it funny … that’s why we raise the Jolly Roger on our vessels,” he told me yesterday, while comparing himself with former pirates Henry Morgan, Sir Walter Raleigh and John Paul Jones...