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The Davis Cup tie is upon us as our National Men Tennis players seek to elevate the country to Zone II in host country El Salvador. As of this writing, two national basketball teams are in Kingston, Jamaica competing in the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships. .Flynn is In, Again
PORT ANTONIO -- Errol Flynn's love affair with Port Antonio began in the 1940s while he was on a sailing trip destined for the Galapagos.Back then, a storm blew his boat the "Zaca" off course to Jamaica and soon he discovered the island's northeast treasure. Port Antonio became Flynn's home for many years, and as he wrote in his memoir, "After thirty-seven years of wandering, I had found my Grecian isle."Now, the Marina at Port Antonio has been renamed the Errol Flynn Marina in tribute to the town's most famous resident. "It's amazing that even today Flynn's presence remains an undercurrent in Port Antonio," said William Tatham, Vice President of Cruise and Marina Operations. "The renaming of the Marina is merely an affirmation of what residents and visitors have known for a long time, that his mystique is still very much a part of the fabric of this part of Jamaica."After his initial visit to the island, Flynn would return to Port Antonio and his 2000-acre Errol Flynn Estates on hiatus between films.Someone paying attention to amateur archaeologist
NEW PORT RICHEY -- An amateur archaeologist who claims that Tarpon Springs is the center of the biblical Garden of Eden and the Tampa Bay area coastline was the seaport of Atlantis, is getting some serious attention for his latest theory.John Saxer thinks huge rocks on land near shorelines in New Port Richey, Holiday and Tarpon Springs are 6,500-year-old stone ark anchors. And an archaeologist with credentials and financial backing now wants to check it out.
Bill Donato, 55, a California archaeologist known for his underwater work near the Bahamas with the Association of Research and Enlightenment, came here to study Saxer's finds.
The maverick archaeologist was lured by pictures of stones Saxer sent him and Saxer's telephone descriptions.
"I don't believe any of the Garden of Eden theories, or most of John's views of Atlantis, which I did my master's thesis on," Donato said.
Balancing act: Deciding who can donate blood
WASHINGTON - Blood banks turn away up to 150,000 would-be donors each year on the slight chance they picked up malaria while traveling to any of dozens of countries.At the same time, concern is growing that a second parasitic infection from abroad - the Chagas disease rampant in parts of Latin America - increasingly threatens donated blood.
Both infections are rare here, but there's no way to test donated blood for either one. Now blood banks are pushing for better safeguards that also could help stretch the nation's tight supply.
First up, malaria: This week, the Food and Drug Administration opens debate on how to balance the need for blood with Americans' increasing travel to malaria hot spots, and to urge manufacturers to develop a malaria test to solve the problem.