Word: whaled
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There was even more terror aboard the 58-m fishing boat, on a training voyage with students from Uwajima Fisheries High School in southwest Japan. "I saw something come up, and I thought it was a whale," crew member Hideo Okayama said. "All I heard was someone screaming, 'Danger! Danger!'" For the next few minutes, the Americans?unable to render assistance because of 2-m waves washing over the sub's deck 15 km south of Hawaii's Diamond Head?watched helplessly as Okayama and 25 shipmates, coated in diesel fuel, struggled into a trio of lifeboats. Nine other people...
...Despite the sanctions, life goes on in tranquil Tripoli. There are a few restaurants, but they are extremely modest. The hotel waiter offered me whale for dinner. He meant fish, which is a staple given Libya's 800 mile coastline. Camel meat cooked in red tomato sauce is popular here, accompanied by white rice and potatoes. In a happy coincidence with the leader's chosen color, the Libyans drink green tea. But one of their great inheritances from the Italians is capuccino...
...Saturday. Although Harvard picked up its second consecutive win in the Tigers' barn, it wasn't able to leave entirely unscathed, as freshman winger Tyler Kolarik suffered a knee injury against Princeton that kept him on the bench against the Elis. The Whale--infamous for hosting a rare defeat of Harvard's 1989 NCAA championship squad--snapped the Crimson's three-game winning streak. However, the Elis' task was alleviated somewhat by the absence of Kolarik and classmate Tim Pettit. Without the freshman tandem, the Crimson was effectively denied its dominant second line--one that has combined for 24 goals...
...team's hottest scoring line--in the persons of freshmen Tim Petit and Tyler Kolarik--scratched from the lineup with knee injuries, it would be tough for any team to skate away with a victory. It's almost impossible to fault a Harvard team for losing at the Whale. Even the historic 1989 NCAA Championship team, which lost just three games all season long, tasted defeat there...
Producer Richard Donner's Free Willy saved him. The 1993 Warner Bros. movie was a hit and was followed by an international public outcry, led chiefly by children, when it turned out that Willy in real life was Keiko, a sick and far from free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with...