TALLINNWhen U.S. President Bill Clinton lifted restrictions on the use of the Global Positioning System for nonmilitary purposes, little did he know that the move would quickly give rise to a new and rather elaborate sport.Just two days after Clinton's announcement on May 1, 2000, someone planted the first geocache near Portland, Oregon.GPS stash hunting - or geocaching - is a game for GPS users who set up caches and share the locations via the Web to enable others to find them. A cache usually contains nothing of real value - just knickknacks. The thrill is simply in finding the cache. Ea...
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