Boy Scout a Hero in the Maldives
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For the Boy Scout who dreams of becoming a policeman, grabbing the knife of a would-be assassin lunging for the president of the Maldives was a crash course in cop-like heroics
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By Kathleen Merryman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Dec. 11--Tacoma's Sea Scouts will have their new Sea Base.   Better yet, they'll share it with other programs and services aimed at getting people, young and not so, back on the water.
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In the wake of the tsunami, local medical workers are the unsung heroes.
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PASIR PUTIH: Patriotism proved to be the undoing of a Thai boat crew caught fishing illegally in Malaysian waters two days ago.  The crew had gone to the trouble of painting a local registration number on the boat and even flew the Jalur Gemilang.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Many desperate families  in Indonesia's Aceh province are turning to traditional magic  men to learn the fate of loved ones still missing more than six  weeks after the Asian tsunami.
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The Thai Navy has rescued hundreds of tourists and other people from the tiny Andaman Sea resort of Koh Phi Phi, after the island made famous by &quot;The Beach&quot; movie
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OSLO -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to re-create the 101-day epic voyage to Tahiti -- although the craft will have solar panels, a satellite navigation system, and a link to the Internet.
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A 15-year-old Boy Scout intervened to stop a man from stabbing Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with a kitchen knife on Tuesday, a move the leader's spokesman said saved him from assassination.
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PALLAI, Sri Lanka  - Housewife Viyarseeli  Nadarajahlingam's whole life revolved around her six children  and helping her husband mend his fishing nets on an idyllic  white sand beach at Sri Lanka's northern tip.
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The Maldives, known as a holiday haven for the rich and famous, is grappling with a growing drug abuse problem among its young people including pre-teens.
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The SEEDS field team is now camping in Port Blair in the Andaman Islands. This is the summary of their update: 1. There is no NGO doing relief work in Andaman and Nicobar so far.
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All around the periphery of the Indian Ocean last Sunday morning, people were going about their lives in the most prosaic and familiar of ways: shopping for vegetables, watching cricket on television, hauling in fishing nets, lounging at poolside.
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Aasif Mandvi has been making waves.
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K. Subramanyam, a fisherman on India's tsunami-devastated southern coast, says it will take a miracle to restore life to his battered trawler and friend "Vadivel".
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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&quot;December Boys&quot; bathes  in the summer sun and sea breezes even as it exudes the energy  of youth and promise.
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MADRAS, India, Dec. 26 -- On a balmy Sunday morning at Marina Beach, Brajita Poulose, 45, her husband, two sons and four other relatives strolled along the shore in the sunshine, enjoying the ocean breeze. Young men were playing cricket, joggers trotted past food vendors, fishermen hauled in their nets. Then, without warning, the placid ocean turned violent.