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...sparkling winter morning at Ha'atafu Beach on the northwestern tip of Tongatapu, the Kingdom of Tonga's main island, Sokoi Liava'a crouches on the shore and eyes the building swell with visible excitement. The forecasts that have been buzzing about the beach were right. After a week of flat or messy seas, clean 2-m waves are rolling in. The tall 25-year-old took up surfing eight months ago. He's unemployed now - a friend chips in that this is because Liava'a kept taking sick days to catch waves. Liava'a laughs this off, but without...
...then reappear and flourish? The first question is the harder one, and answering it involves a short trip through history. From the writings of George Vason, an English missionary dropped on one of the country's 170 islands in 1797, we know that Tongans used to surf. From the shore he would watch the natives take "particular delight" in an amusement they called fanifo. "It is astonishing to see with what dexterity they will steer themselves on the waves," Vason wrote, "one hand being stretched out, as the prow before, and the other guiding them like a rudder behind. Several...
...surface, in some places just five centimeters from the bulldozer's tracks, the finds started. When these people were buried, their graves lay near the shoreline of a beach, and the area is still littered with a ghostly confetti of coral and shell. Since then, earthquakes have pushed the shore about 800 m away, and the burial ground is now on private land used in recent times for cattle grazing, surrounded by a green tide of dense bush, vine and coconut palms. Some time later a village, now vanished, sprang up on top of the graves, perhaps as memory...
...would comment.) The acquisition of the Siemens unit is also risky. Burdened with stodgy phones, high costs and falling market share, the German operation is losing about $1 million a day. To seal the deal, Siemens management agreed to pay BenQ $300 million?cash that will help BenQ to shore up the business, according to the companies. Siemens also agreed to buy $60 million in BenQ stock. Despite the fact that Siemens virtually paid BenQ to take the troubled phone unit off its hands, Lee says he is "confident [BenQ] can turn around the operation." He plans to add handsets...
...served as a way of oblivion--of reconstructing an idealized innocence. Thus, as Dr. Cooper points out, Homer's 1870s watercolors of farm children and bucolic courtships try to memorialize the halcyon days of the 1850s; the children gazing raptly at the blue horizon in Three Boys On The Shore, their backs forming a shallow arch, in a sense are this lost America. None of this prevented Homer's contemporaries from seeing such works as unvarnished and in some ways disagreeable truth. "Barbarously simple," thought Henry James. "He has chosen the least pictorial features of the least pictorial range...