Lawsuits, ahoy! […] Towns can regulate use of their beaches. But what about the waters offshore?

Twenty-one Sheltok megacarriers vanished without a trace, and others had close calls.

Online activities include getting and sending e-messages and photos, using Facebook, sharing artwork or music, building Web sites, or Internet gaming.

As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse.