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...islands are in fact the tail end of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The submerged peaks cover a 1,000-km arc from Burma to Sumatra, surrounded on all sides by deep ocean. Divers and snorkelers can swim with all the usual reef crowd?butterfly fish, blue napoleons, sea anemones, snapper and brightly colored parrot fish?and also encounter larger visitors from deeper waters, like blue and sperm whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and marine turtles. The area is a favored haunt of the endangered dugong, a cousin of the manatee, that feeds in the sea grasses of the shallow coastal...
...POSTURE The classic images of T. rex showed him standing upright, with tail near the ground for stability. The correct posture is shown in this skeleton from Chicago's Field Museum: the beast balanced its weight over its hips like a seesaw...
...Taliban turned tail in Afghanistan and U.S. troops are helping to mop up Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines. But smoking out evil in Indonesia is fast becoming a foggy affair. Case in point: a supposedly top-secret document entitled 'Jihad War in Southeast Asia' outlined a plan to blow up the U.S. embassies in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore on Dec. 4. This screed fell into the hands of Indonesian police and surfaced in January as an exclusive for Singapore's Straits Times. A costly slip by the evildoers, it would seem. But why would the authors, purportedly from the radical...
...locating an illegal Internet site can be difficult. Pirates can stay one step ahead of the law by storing digital movies on rented servers in countries where copyright enforcement is lax, and it is not difficult to move the operation to another locale if the cops are on your tail. When first informed of the existence of Movie88.com, Taiwanese police initially insisted the site was physically located in the U.S. state of Virginia, not Taiwan...
...Prime Number 70 percent of the U.S. military budget goes to overhead and infrastructure, according to the watchdog Tail-to-Tooth Commission...