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...American flag has been burned and a court order has been distributed. But the Alaska-bound ferry Malaspina loaded with American tourists remains hemmed in by a tiny armada of Canadian fishing boats at Prince Rupert. The vigilantes are protesting Alaskan catches of the premier salmon as they swim toward Canada. Since quota negotiations between the neighbors collapsed last month, the Canadians say, their Alaskan counterparts have taken far more than their share of the prized fish, threatening to put the Canadian fishermen out of work. That has stirred up some memories. "Canadians have learned bitter lessons from the unemployment...
...Kinsley: This is the proper form of salutation in Washington.") The same informality applies to dress, which in this world--where style is set by barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality of "business casual" to truly casual. Inside the Washington Beltway, meanwhile, people still swim through swamplike summer heat and humidity wearing dark wool suits and damp white shirts, their air supply constricted by a tight Windsor knot...
Powered by baby food and bananas, 22-year-old SUSIE MARONEY of Australia became the first woman to swim from Cuba to Florida in her second attempt at that odyssey last week. Inside a sharkproof cage attached to the good ship Reel Lady, Maroney crawled 112 miles in 24 1/2 hours. In the wee small hours she hallucinated, seeing monkeys in the water. And to distract herself from the hammerhead sharks cruising by, she mentally replayed Seinfeld episodes. Upon arrival in Florida, her tongue swollen from salt water, her skin tattooed with jellyfish stings, she said, "So many times...
Almost a year later, Murdock shows no signs of cancer. He is back home, sailing with his sons and watching the salmon swim in a creek a mile from his house. He is too savvy to declare himself cured--that determination could take three years--but he is ready for battle, both to save his company and to get the new device into doctors' hands. CellPro lost the latest round in its patent fight with competitors in federal court in April, and in a month a judge could issue a ruling preventing CellPro from selling its product to new customers...
Naber, also a Crimson editor, created many of these chances. A former member of the Harvard swim team, the junior captured all three of her opening sprints (quarters begin with each team racing towards the middle of the pool to get the ball), and Naber started many of the fast breaks as well...