Pearl Harbor changed his idea of adventure
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Sixty years ago today, I stopped into the original Howard Johnson&#39;s beside the Wollaston railroad station on my way to a religious meeting.
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BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq - On stages in war zones like this one, Bob Hope used to wag a golf club, affecting nonchalance as he poked fun at pompous military brass and making light of the dangers around him.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - At first, American tourist  Matthew O'Connell thought the rising sea was the sign of a good  day's surfing ahead.
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Paul Goodyear, 86, of Casa Grande, Ariz., shows where he was stationed as a signalman aboard the USS Oklahoma after the dedication ceremony for teh ships new exhibit at the USS Arizona Memoal Museum in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Monday, Dec. 6. 2004.
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Travel: Adharanand Finn learns there's more to a Finnish summer than saunas and smoked herring.
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A former Japanese navy doctor says he had to experiment on condemned Filipino captives in World War II.
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WASHINGTON _ It's only a short hop by plane from the remote Aleutian fishing outpost of King Cove to the World War II-era airfield at Cold Bay, Alaska's third-largest airstrip.  If only the weather would cooperate, which much of the time it doesn't.
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It was the closest that Pitcairn had ever come to civil insurrection. The spark was the Clipper Odyssey, an American cruise ship that anchored offshore so that passengers could tour the island immortalised by the Bounty mutineers.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - He has tried to soak up everything the second time around. The sights. The sounds. The warm weather. The media attention. Everything.
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By Ray Kershaw  It's early October but the midday sun is torrid. Beyond the scrubby hills the sea glitters like hot steel. Then suddenly, from a corner of our vision, we see him leaping through the dunes.
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He signed up for the Marine Reserves in peacetime. Then the towers fell. The military as he knew it changed forever--as did his place in it.
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He once cruised the nightspots of Tokyo   in a Ferrari and enjoyed trips by private jet -- now he prefers   reading or meditating on a quiet mountainside while awaiting   trial.
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Alaska is a sleepy frontier backwater until Pearl Harbor. The specter of Japanese troops plunging down from the north frightens two governments into building what will become the Alaska Highway.
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George Lucas is emphasizing academics over adventure as he revisits the early years of his bold hero Indiana Jones.
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TOKYO -- Japan has changed the name of the Pacific island of Iwo Jima, site of the famous World War II battle, to its original name of Iwo To after residents there were prodded into action by two recent Clint Eastwood movies.
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POIPU BEACH, Hawaii - When Phil Mickelson visited Kauai about eight months ago on a family vacation, he was determined to return. But with his 0-46 record in major championships as a pro and amateur, qualifying
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The search for sunken treasure in deep-sea shipwrecks may sound like the stuff of children's adventure stories rather than corporate boardrooms.