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MARGARET RIVER, Australia (Reuters) - The waves have been nicknamed Cyclops, Jaws and Dungeons and are the new life-and-death playground for a unique breed of surfers who ride gargantuan ocean waves as big as a seven storey building. Australian surfer Alex Cater, 25, has been chasing giant waves for the past five years and knows only too well the agony and ecstasy of what they call tow-in surfing, where a surfer is whipped by jet ski into giant waves bigger than most tsunamis. "If you don't have a bit of fear then you shouldn't be out there," said Cater. "When...

Man charged with chasing men with chain saw 5-14-04 From Staff Reports Posted 7:45 a.m. WINST0N-SALEM — A man was charged with terrorizing the public after chasing men into a grocery store with a chain saw, police said. About 7:30 p.m. Thursday, officers responded to the Stanleyville Grocery at 3990 Patterson regarding a report of a man with a gun, Winston-Salem police said. The investigation revealed Darrell Alson Steed and Michael Steven Allen, both white, had been involved in threatening four African-Americans with a chain saw, police said. Steed began using racial slurs while threatening to kill the victims, police...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Parents of more than 100 Danish scouts were outraged over a game of tag at a scout camp in which children acted as Jews wearing yellow Stars of David and tried to escape from adults pretending to be Nazis. The group of about 160 scouts, aged 11-14, included a dozen teenagers from the Danish-speaking minority in northern Germany. The school yard was turned into a concentration camp with swastikas on the windows. "I was shocked," Johanna Christiansen, a German woman, told the Ekstra Bladet newspaper on Thursday. "It's wrong to expose children to this," said Christiansen, whose...

Oh no, the lawyers are in control. We should all be running for cover, I mean they´re really in control. Morals are out, procedure is in. Instead of standing on ethical grounds, our leaders retreat to the grey, lukewarm area of the courtroom. Swapping blows of the legal sort are as ingrained in our degenerating culture as the words "hot dog". Americans, from the lowest levels of society to the oval office regress to this, the most primal of threat language. Politically, our vote throwers on Capitol Hill know that, rhetorically, the threat of legal action speaks widely across the...