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Junger touches on everything from the war in Kosovo to the deadly diamond trade in Sierra Leone, the dispute between Greece and Turkey over the island of Cyprus to the moving tale of the last living whale harpoonist, Athneal Ollivierre, from the Caribbean island of Bequia. In doing so, we learn little about the greater geopolitical issues involved. Instead we see the men and women who are left behind when war ends and those who view forest fires less as an uncontrolled fire and more as a chance for employment and overtime...
...CONCORDE Supersonic planes get O.K. for return to service. Never mind what the global economic meltdown has done to CEOs' travel budgets Losers BRITNEY SPEARS Slammed by animal-rights activists for plans to bring cheetahs onstage, she totes a snake instead. Like, who knew reptiles were animals? KEIKO THE WHALE Free Willy star's keepers give up on trying to free him to the ocean. Now they want him to gain 10 kg for a role in Bridget Jones's Diary 2 VICTORIA BECKHAM The singer formally known as Posh Spice dodges flying apples and onions during solo concert. Scary...
Those are Dr. Dre's shouted instructions, heard through a storm of bass and beats so deafening that a full-size couch is actually lurching off the ground, like a great green whale preparing to breach. Realizing that he can't be heard, Dre touches a button on the mixing board and the music stops. "I need louder cellos," he says in a normal voice to the recording-studio technician. Then quietly to himself, "Cellos make everything sound evil...
...Irwin admits that FLW's fortunes might be different if he hadn't landed the whale: he persuaded Lee Scott, now CEO of the cautious but deep-pocketed Wal-Mart, to make the retailer FLW's marquee sponsor. "I said, 'Lee, we've got a program that is absolutely your customer,'" recalls Jacobs. "He said, 'Look, we don't do those kinds of things.'" They...
When U.S.-led forces invaded Grenada in 1983, troops from six other tiny Caribbean island nations were right behind the Americans. Last week, at a highly contentious International Whaling Commission meeting in London, Grenada and four of its former invaders - Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines - stood side-by-side with Japan in angry skirmishes with the U.S. and its anti-whaling allies over the future of the earth's largest mammal. Amid allegations that Japan had bought the votes of the five island states, as well as those of St. Kitts and Nevis...