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Looking for the perfect wave? Try Peru.

LIMA — In the film “The Endless Summer,” two surfing buddies travel to Australia, South Africa and Tahiti in their quest to ride great waves all year long. It turns out they could have just come to Peru.

Rudy Giuliani to advise Peruvian presidential candidate

"America's mayor" was known for reducing crime. Can he bring that success to Peru?
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Rudy Giuliani speaks to the media in Staten Island on Nov. 16, 2009. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

It was Rudy Giuliani's signal achievement: reducing crime in the Big Apple.

He's been out of City Hall for almost a decade now, and didn't get far in his 2008 bid for the presidency, but the former New York City mayor is still cashing in on his expertise.

Peruvian presidential candidate Keiki Fujimori has hired Giuliani as an adviser to boost her law-and-order credentials. Giuliani is expected to help Fujimori's campaign design public safety programs.

Giuliani arrived in Peru on Sunday and met with several mayors in Lima, as well as with members of Fujimori's senior staff, reported La Republica.

He said he went to a police station and jail and then was going to give recommendations on how to reduce crime. "Your system is in need of tremendous repair," Giuliani said.

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New species discovered in Amazon

It’s not a bigfoot
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New species discovered in Peruvian Amazon. (BBC)

The creature discoveries are some of the first of their kind in decades. The findings were reported in Zootaxa, a scientific journal that concerns itself with neither zoos nor taxes but, rather, newly-discovered animals. The article abstract tells us the new critters have been given snazzy names —Heliotrygon gomesi and Heliotrygon rosai — and it describes them in pornographic detail, focusing in particular on the animals’ “stout and triangular pelvic girdle," and their "very slender and acute anterior extension.” If that’s got you feeling excited, the BBC has pictures, and reports that most of the specimens were discovered near Iquitos in Peru. In case you're curious, the species in question isn't a bigfoot. They're two new kinds of freshwater stingray, and they're are bigger, browner and more pancake-shaped than their non-Amazon cousins.

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Peru: The return of Fujimori

Keiko refers to her father in every campaign speech. She's betting Peruvians remember the good things about his government.
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