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There is a single crank for winding all four windows in the aging taxi I hail at Manas International Airport outside Bishkek. "Russian car" is the only explanation?and the only English?offered by the driver. Welcome to Kyrgyzstan, a country still recuperating from its 70-year stint as part of the U.S.S.R., when it was a top-secret site of weapons tests and uranium mines. Despite emerging as the Central Asian destination most welcoming to independent visitors, Kyrgyzstan remains seldom visited...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Another lure is the population's utter devotion to hospitality. I experienced this immediately after arriving on my late-night flight, when a female airport employee insisted on seeing me all the way to my homestay...
...written on a tarot card found at one of the 12 shooting sites, hoping to link it to a specific kind of pen, law-enforcement sources told Time. Agents dismissed as unrelated a shell casing found in a white box truck at a car-rental agency near Dulles Airport in Virginia. And the FBI is reviewing credit-card receipts from filling stations near the shooting sites, in case the killer staked out his crime scenes and gassed up while he was at it. The latest suspected shooting site was in Ashland, Va., about 80 miles south of Washington, where...
...Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, he cheerfully admits that the final selections were completely arbitrary. The only place he knew in advance would be on hislist was the Daliesque "Avenue of the Baobabs" near Morondava, Madagascar. In some cases, he showed photos of trees to people at airport check-in counters and let them tell him where to find even better ones. In others, he relied on what he calls the "Wow! factor." "My wife is by no means addicted to trees," Pakenham explains. "So if we walked by a tree and she became oddly silent and then said...
...chief minister. When votes were tallied at a local convention hall (named after his grandfather) in Omar's intended constituency of Gandherbal last Thursday, his supporters eagerly followed the count. But Omar broke away and parked himself beneath a tree, where he sipped coffee and flipped morosely through an airport thriller. He knew it wasn't going well, and was right: the National Conference won 28 seats in the 87-seat state assembly. Omar himself was not elected...