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...smaller rivers had not been fished at all. There are no roads along the coast, and the rivers have too many rapids for boats to make their way up from the sea. But in the past few years, intrepid outfitters here--and in remote parts of New Zealand and Alaska--have borrowed the techniques of heli-skiing to deliver anglers to the kind of fishing they have always dreamed about...
...explain just what happened aboard Dele's boat. "We presume that the bodies of these people must be in the sea--the ocean--and will probably never be found," says prosecutor Michel Marotte in Tahiti. The 55-ft. boat Hakuna Matata embarked in late May from Auckland, New Zealand, bound for Tahiti and Hawaii. Dele was joined onboard by his girlfriend Serena Karlan, 30, who was a former New York City real estate agent, and Bertrand Saldo, 32, a Frenchman and professional yacht captain. Dabord, a computer programmer from California, turned up uninvited. In emails to her parents and friends...
...Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, the animated fantasy that broke Japan's all-time box-office record a year ago and is now opening in North America. The People's Choice Award, voted by the festival's audience members, went to Niki Caro's Whale Rider, the New Zealand saga of a Maori girl who dreams of being her tribe's first female chief. It is an old-fashioned story smartly told, and enchantingly played by young Keisha Castle-Hughes...
...government has told him that it is considering placing him in a college in New Zealand or Australia along with other scholarship students who face delays in getting American visas, Hwei said...
MARINE RESERVES Wilderness areas in the oceans are a relatively new concept. One of its pioneers is Bill Ballantine, a marine biologist in New Zealand with the University of Auckland who in 1965 raised the idea of "no take" reserves, which prohibit all fishing. New Zealand now has 16 marine reserves; others have been established in Australia, Belize, the Galapagos Islands and the Caribbean. In 2000 the Nature Conservancy purchased the atoll of Palmyra, 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, to preserve its 15,000 acres of pristine coral reefs...