Last tack to Hong Kong

Article Abstract:

A crew member in the Clipper '96 Round the World Yacht Race tells of her experiences. She had no experience of sailing as a crew member before participating in the race, and was very nervous about what might be required of her. She found the initial training very hard work, and was particularly worried when she learned that she had been assigned to a yacht with a skipper who had a reputation for being very intolerant of incompetent sailors. She participated in the leg from Honolulu to Yokohama to Shanghai to Hong Kong, and found it a very exhilarating experience to reach Hong Kong.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Competitions, Yachts and yachting, Yachting, Yachts, Women sailors

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Oslo flexes its cultural muscle

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The ninth Ultima music festival, which took place in Oslo, Norway, over 10 days from the beginning of Oct 1999, covered a wide range of activities. These include dance, opera, new music concerts and electroacoustic installations. Particular emphasis was placed on electroacoustic music and concerts with live electronics. Jonathan Harvey's 'Ashes Dance Black' was a high point in a performance by the New London Chamber Choir at Oslo University, while the last of the festival's orchestra concerts was performed by the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra under Zsolt Nagy.

Norway, Music festivals

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Oslo refuses to change tack on whales

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Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland feels that US and UK support for banning whaling is unreasonable as the whale should not be singled out from other animals. Norway is an environmentally correct country, whereas objectors to whaling have poor records on environmental issues. American sanctions could be imposed and Norway's application to join the EC could be jeopardised. Norway intends to kill a maximum of 800 minke whales a year, as too many would threaten other, endangered types of whale.

Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental aspects, Political aspects, Endangered species, Wildlife conservation, Whaling, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Minke whale

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