The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Adelaide, Australia - An Australian teenager was killed Thursday in the country's second fatal shark attack within a week. The 18-year-old male was being towed on his surfboard by three other teenagers in a small boat off the shores of West Beach, in the southern city of Adelaide. The teenager fell from the surfboard when two great white sharks ? both as long as five metres ? attacked about 300 metres from the crowded beach. London - An attempt to auction a magnum of Dom Perignon champagne from the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer was called off Wednesday when nobody was willing to pay the reserve price of $2,365. The vintage 1961 magnum, signifying the year of Diana's birth, was one of a dozen bottled for the 1981 wedding in London. Tokyo - Iceland has offered a residency visa to Bobby Fischer, but the former U.S. chess champion faces obstacles to get there because he remains in jail in Japan under an American deportation order. Fischer is wanted in the United States on charges of violating international sanctions in Yugoslavia in 1992, when he earned $3.5 million for defeating Russian Boris Spassky in a series of matches. Fischer, a brilliant chess player who rocketed to grandmaster at 15, was hailed as a Cold War hero when he defeated Spassky to become the first American world champion in more than 100 years.
