Forty-five years after taking part in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, Tomas Vazquez has no fight left in him, and simply dreams of seeing the island he loves one last time before he dies. ”I am old, I’m tired,” says Vazquez surrounded by Cuban memorabilia and a dozen former comrades-in-arms. ”My only hope is to be able to spend a week in Cuba, come back and die.”
A trend toward building ever bigger cruise ships, such as a 3 600-passenger vessel to be launched in June, has some industry experts wondering whether it might be too much of a good thing. Cruise lines taunt dream vacations at sea, complete with Broadway-style shows, cinemas, gourmet food and even artificial waves for surfing.
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/ 7 February 2006
United States aviator Steve Fossett, who last year made the first solo non-stop trip around the world in an airplane, was making final preparation early on Tuesday for another adventure, during which he plans to set a new record for the longest aircraft flight.
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/ 19 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma, which swelled into an ”extremely dangerous” category-five storm on Wednesday, threatening Mexico and the Caribbean, is the strongest hurricane on record in the Atlantic, the United States National Hurricane Centre said.
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/ 19 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma intensified into an ”extremely dangerous category-five hurricane” early on Wednesday, churning northward between western Cuba and Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the United States National Hurricane Centre said. Winds at the centre of the storm were clocked at 281kph, the centre said.
As the life of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo hung by a thread on Tuesday, her father feared doctors might hasten her death with morphine, while her husband requested that an autopsy be performed after she dies to prove the extent of her incapacitation. ”He’s requested this very strongly,” said Michael Schiavo’s lawyer.
A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, rejected a bid to reinsert the feeding tube sustaining the life of a brain-damaged woman whose plight has sparked an emotional debate over the ”right to die”. The woman’s parents will now likely take their case to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, lawyers said.
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/ 12 January 2005
An original pirate banner and a treasure chest that belonged to Thomas Tew are the crown jewels of Pirate Soul, a new museum that opened recently in Key West and is dedicated to those hated brigands or heroes, depending on which point of view one prefers.