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POPSMessage in a Bottle Found After 21 Years at Sea Emily Hwaung, is now Emily Shih and is a 30-year-old accountant who still calls Seattle home. The letter in the soda bottle traveled over 1,700 miles before being discovered. The message was sent during the 1986-87 school year and spent over 20 years in transit before its discovery late last year.
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POPSThe South Pole's first bar fight! Canada's National Post said the antagonists were both employees of Raytheon International, the defense contractor that does the construction and maintenance work at the Amundsen-Scott station. The injured man was flown on to a Christchurch, New Zealand hospital, at a cost of about $85,000. He was discharged Dec. 26 and was said to be recovering locally. The other man got an early return to the U.S. — without his job.