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...KUALA LUMPUR: Aerohawk Lift your love up where it belongs: half a kilometer above in letters 2 m tall. Aerohawk will play cupid for $1,300 an hour-a bargain, considering it's the only aerial advertiser in the country...
Sheik Hassan Assi could see that the burly Kurdish guerrilla leader was in no mood to bargain. The Kurd, he recalls, backed him against a wall and shook his forefinger, saying, "Shame on you, Sheik, for building a house on Kurdish land. You knew we would be back one day, even if it took us 100 years!" For Assi, an Arab, it was not just a house but a dream home, a resplendent country estate on the outskirts of Kirkuk, on which he had spent his life's fortune. The Kurd, Mohammed Abdullah, had moved into the house after...
...because of what happened between Hizballah and Israel," says a senior Palestinian security official. "The prisoner deal makes him look like a dwarf." The prisoner deal came after German mediator Ernst Uhrlau, the coordinator of his country's Federal Intelligence Service, persuaded Iran to pressure Hizballah to strike a bargain. The agreement is split into three stages. In last week's swap, Israel freed 429 prisoners and detainees and returned the bodies of 60 Lebanese killed as far back as 1984; in return, Israel received the corpses of three soldiers killed on the Lebanese border in October 2000. Hizballah also...
...fortresses at Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and the Taj Mahal in Agra. The 14 coaches of the train?each of them lavishly decorated with silk and velvet fittings?are named after former Rajput states. It's a train ride, luxury holiday and history lesson all rolled into one?and a bargain at $395 per night...
...orbiting hotel. Forget the golf for at least the next few decades. But as early as 2007 it may be possible to take a slingshot ride to the edge of the atmosphere for a celestial view of the planet and a few minutes of weightlessness--for a bargain price of $98,000. Space Adventures of Arlington, Va., is marketing that trip and claims that 100 would-be astronauts have already put down deposits. An orbiting hotel may not be so far behind. Nevada real estate magnate Robert Bigelow says he's ahead of schedule in his $500 million plan...