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...LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY Alexander McCall Smith (Anchor) Precious Ramotswe runs a female detective agency in Botswana with cunning, charm and a how-to manual...
...Wisconsin Dells, Wis., in the mid-'90s. Once a summer hot spot, the Dells (located off I90/94) now attracts winter tourists to its 18 indoor water-park resorts. Opened in 2000, the African-themed Kalahari Resort's indoor park doubled in size last year with such rides as the Botswana Blast, a 570-ft. uphill water roller coaster. Nearby, the Wild West-themed Wilderness Resort added a third indoor water park this year. Among the latest parks are the North Woods--inspired Great Wolf Lodge in suburban Kansas City, Kans. (off I-70 and I-435), and the 1-acre...
...National Book Award. Rush then resumed his silence. Now, 12 years later, we have the remarkable Mortals, which gives us the late-blooming Rush as challenging and surprising and uncompromising as ever. Ray Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is sexy, beautiful, 10 years younger - and bored out of her mind in Botswana. Her unhappiness eats away...
President Bush arrived in Botswana for a party. Normally when Air Force One wings into a foreign country, the President is met by strings of troops snapped at attention. Here, the American President was greeted not with troops but with little pockets of bright local color...
...celebration matched the beauty and buoyancy of the location. Botswana is one of Africa's economic success stories and looks it. Modern and clean in many areas, it benefits from the world's largest diamond trade. But, as with even Africa's prosperous nations, the picture is mixed. AIDS is rampant in the Texas-sized country. Of the roughly 1.7 million residents, nearly 40% are infected, which is the world's worst ratio. Quoting former President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia who called the disease the continent's "deadliest enemy,"Bush promised that "the first thing I wanted the leadership...