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...spoils. His peers were skeptical when Jim Clark decided to colonize the Web. Well, today Netscape's value has jumped to $5 billion, Clark's own net worth stands at $1.3 billion, and he escapes often to enjoy the last laugh while sailing to sun-drenched paradises like Tahiti. He has earned the lush life twice over, even though others share the high-tech glory. After all, Columbus may have discovered the New World, but it was Isabella and Ferdinand who persuaded the royal court to put up the money...
...nowhere was the reaction more dramatic than in Papeete, Tahiti, the capital of French Polynesia, where several hundred rioters went on a rampage. In a 36-hour orgy of trashing and looting, they virtually destroyed Tahiti's international airport, smashed storefront windows and torched several buildings before French Foreign Legionnaires and paramilitary troops arrived. The upheaval, which injured 40 people and did damage estimated in the millions of dollars, was attributed to a volatile mixture of antinuclear and pro-independence sentiments...
...ketch, La Rebaude had sailed from Papeete, the capital of Tahiti, at midnight 11 days earlier, without clearance from the French, and rendezvoused with the two kayakers at sea a few miles down the island's coast. Greenpeace bought the boat somewhat casually at dockside in Papeete and equipped it in four days, without sea testing and without including a long-range radio transmitter or receiver. (The diesel engine died four hours into the voyage, so the vessel also lacked electric power, except a little generated by solar panels, and thus had no functioning refrigerator or electric bilge pump...
...bring a bunch of swimming suits. One is okay, but you'll find that Cambridge is not exactly Tahiti. Resign yourself to the fact that you will never be as tan as your best friend who attends that prestigious university on the West Coast. Ditto for the sunblock and the beach umbrella...
...Brando's daughter happens to coincide with his re-emergence on screen in Don Juan DeMarco. As an added and cruel irony, his last scene in the movie is a dance on the beach of a tropical island with his wife (Faye Dunaway). Their paradise looks a lot like Tahiti...