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...Sunday morning, only 40 minutes before the first of the terrorists' several deadlines for exploding the plane, Charlie Echo took off unexpectedly. It headed first for the island of Masirah, 20 miles off the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, but the Sultanate of Oman refused to allow it to land. For at least two hours after that, nobody in the area was sure of the plane's whereabouts. "Do you know where it is?" Aden asked Saudi Arabia, which replied: "We lost him." In fact, Charlie Echo had headed for Aden, capital of the People...
Since its inception, the Crosby Pro-Am has always been played at Pebble Beach, perhaps the greatest course in the world, but the first two rounds are now played on two other courses on the Monterey Peninsula, Cypress Point and Spyglass...
...world's growing thirst. Prince Faisal's own company, Iceberg Transport International, is considering a plan to find a 100 million-ton iceberg off Antarctica,* wrap it in sailcloth and plastic to slow its melting, and then use powerful tugboats to tow it to the Arabian peninsula, where it would supply enormous quantities of drinking water. The journey would take about eight months and the project would cost around $100 million, according to estimates...
...natural defenses. Soon hundreds of new cases were being reported annually. The panic that had swept Europe during its epidemics centuries earlier was repeated in Hawaii. In 1865, King Kamehameha V ordered all lepers confined to the most desolate part of his realm, the volcanic, 14-sq.-mi. peninsula of Kalaupapa jutting northward from the coast of Molokai. The first 35 patients were landed in January 1866, with no more food and clothing than they could carry on their backs...
...food beyond a few rangy cattle. Patients had to tote water from a spring a mile away. The arrival of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster changed all that. He inspired and encouraged the colonists to build better houses and a primitive hospital on the sheltered side of the peninsula and to install a mile-long water line. How and where or when Damien contracted leprosy, which caused his death in 1889, can never be known. The disease can have an incubation period of ten or more years and the priest might have been previously exposed to contagious patients. Other than...