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...BOOTY It was dawn on April 9, 1942 when Japanese reconnaissance planes found their quarry. Below them, the British aircraft carrier H.M.S. Hermes and her Australian escort H.M.A.S. Vampire were cutting south through the crystal waters along Sri Lanka's east coast. Alerted to the peril, the Allied crews scrambled to action stations. But at 10:35 a.m., off Batticaloa, 70 Japanese dive bombers attacked the Hermes. Within 10 minutes the ship had taken 40 hits. It capsized and disappeared beneath the waves with 307 of its crew. The Vampire survived two near-misses and tried to counterattack with antiaircraft...
...Until last year it was only possible to dive the east coast if you were accompanied by the Sri Lankan navy. "You had to bring your own equipment and be a pretty confident diver," says Mick Smith, an Australian-born Colombo resident. "But the wrecks are something special." Today, dive operations are springing up along the coast, and divers in the deep harbor are rewarded with a glimpse of infrequently visited iron skeletons. Always go with a registered guide or dive master familiar with the area, however, as in many places live ammunition still lies scattered on the seabed...
...folklore that grow like thick vines around his chosen trees. For him trees are best classified by personality type: gods and goddesses, grizzlies, dwarfs, aliens and ghosts. Some are already famous, such as California's brutish General Sherman sequoia, the largest living thing, or the 2,200-year-old Sri Lankan bo tree that was reputedly grown from a cutting of the tree under which Buddha found enlightenment. Others are less well known: the Montezuma cypress in Tule, Mexico, 140 ft. high and 190 ft. in girth, which "wraps itself around you with its huge, bare brown arms"; the troll...
...over 65 who drink heavily compared with a decade ago, according to a new British study 130 million cell phones will be discarded each year by 2005, according to a study funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 140 new tree frog species were discovered during a survey of Sri Lanka's rain forests 4,000 is the number of significant threats U.S. embassies receive each year, say State Department officials 4,767 years is the age of a bristlecone pine in California, according to scientists attempting to clone what they say is the oldest living tree 35 truckloads...
...source who told TIME that Bangladesh is "not a real hot account." But Bangladesh also has its fundamentalists. And its southern coastal hills and northern borders with India are lawless and bristling with Islamic militants armed by gunrunners en route from Cambodia and southern Thailand to Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Central Asia and the Middle East...