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Among the advice a newly certified scuba diver may hear is this: don't dive the Red Sea first, unless you want to be disappointed with every other site. For diversity of coral life per square foot, no other place matches it. Preserving that supremacy, at least in the tiny chink of the sea that belongs to her native Jordan, is the goal of Princess Basma Bint Ali, a cousin of King Hussein's. Princess Basma, 28, is president of the Jordan Royal Ecological Diving Society, which works to protect the delicate undersea world in the Gulf of Aqaba...
...private life, Green downhill skied, scuba-dived, sailed and traveled, said his wife, Joanna. As an undergraduate, Green played the flute in the Harvard band...
...JERRY SEINFELD, swanning around in Australia on tour. As a public service, we humbly offer you some of the material Seinfeld is trying out in foreign climes. (Warning: comedy sometimes becomes misplaced in translation.) On Australia: "I love your flag [above]: Britain at night." On his neuroses while scuba diving off the coast of Queensland: "I see a rock, there's a fish, and, yes, I'm still alive." On Australian sport: "You have Australian-rules football here. Of course you do. You're in Australia." To a fan who shrieked out, "Jerry, I love you!": "I love...
...skill-free children are overwhelmed by information even without the Internet. The glossy magazines and hundred-odd cable channels, the videotapes and computer CDs in most libraries and many homes--they need more information? It's as if the Administration were announcing that every child must have the fanciest scuba gear on the market--but these kids don't know how to swim, and fitting them out with scuba gear isn't just useless, it's irresponsible; they'll drown...
Lawmakers were treated to $4.6 million worth of goodies in 1996, according to an Associated Press survey. But there must be a twinge of guilt, even among the bitterly partisan, as they sight-see in London or scuba dive in the Pacific or tee up next to someone who wants their vote. Espy, who may have learned about ethics when he was in Congress, readies for a trial that could send him to jail...