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...picks is Lonely Planet's new guide to the entire globe. Aptly titled The Travel Book, it skims over every country in the world - all 192 of them, plus a handful of territories - in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There is lots of local knowledge as well. "No es facil" (it's not easy) is, we are told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know...
...leaves begin to brown, as seersucker makes way for camel-hair, and as cosmopolitan cocktails convert to classic cognacs, we reach many Harvard students’ favorite time of year—punch season...
...CINEMA: Intimate Strangers Through the eyes of a camel...
...race wasn't a race at all, just a solitary Mongolian inching along the track. Otgonbayar, the 22-year-old daughter of camel and sheep herders, didn't so much run into the historic stadium as microshuffle in, with a gait so unhurried that the thousands of cheering spectators could be forgiven for thinking the world had paused or, at the very least, shifted into super slo-mo. "The sound of all the clapping from the fans pushed me forward, and I felt like I was running very fast," says Otgonbayar, who ended her race with a time...
About an hour outside Houston, at the end of a dirt road, sits a rambling ranch house where peacocks, emus and even a camel wander in the yard. It's hardly what you would expect the U.S. national training center for gymnastics to look like. But this is gym HQ because Bela and Martha Karolyi live here. Once a month, they open their 2,000-acre spread to a few elite gymnasts in an effort to return the U.S. to the glory of 1996. That was the year Martha coached the U.S. women's squad--the Magnificent Seven...