It goes as close to land as possible, winding among low, rocky islands, squeezing through tight straits, lingering below staggering mountains.
But step inside and a winding corridor leads you up through lava rock into two cave-like rooms, with vast panoramic windows overlooking the "Rio", a strait between Lanzarote and the tiny island of La Graciosa.
Professor Frank J. Doti of the Chapman University law school in Orange, Calif., who with Pallavi Shah, a law student, represented Ms. Reyes, said that many low-income people audited by the I.R.S. wound up in worse straits than did Ms. Reyes.
Of course you can undertake a solo voyage that winds up 1,700 miles from the Sumatra Straits.
As a Rider Haggardesque tale of faraway lands and exotic places and people, it starts off passably well, with a voyage to the Torres Straits, but it's destined to wind up in the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.
"She was in dire straits, she needed multiple blood transfusions, and she wound up needing a hysterectomy, which could have been averted if she had been given the appropriate medications," Dr. Tracy said.
By the time he reaches the open water of the Tsugaru Strait, the wind has turned into a gale and the waves grow higher with every assault on the bow of his boat.
In the middle of the strait, the wind kicks up a bit and the Princes Islandss, which sit amid an encroaching fleet of tankers out in the Sea of Marmara, emerge from the haze.
WHAT Hal Sutton calls "the last true barometer of success" in golf, making the Ryder Cup team, hovers over nine Americans like the wind at Whistling Straits in today's final round of this 86th Professional Golfers Association Championship.
He ran like the wind raging through the Cook Strait on legs the size of the Southern Alps.
