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...other Europeans were not amused. Their counterthrust came in the form of two open letters, splashed across the front pages of Europe's newspapers, in which 18 countries agreed to stand together against Saddam--and at the side of the United States. It didn't help when Chirac, cane in hand, blasted the East Europeans among them for "misbehaving." For now, say goodbye to Europe's speaking "with one voice." And score that round...
...Italian-Austrian who ranched cattle in Kenya's Rift Valley. She is the daughter of a South African sugar-cane farmer. While John and Erica Platter were not actually born into South Africa's 300-year-old viticulture industry, they have nonetheless become the foremost ambassadors of the country's wine. The Platters' annual South African wine guide was first published in 1979. The 2003 edition is 520 pages thick, and required reading among the sundowner-sipping svelte of the veldt. Now, after what they describe as "a year, or two, of drinking dangerously" the couple have completed a safari...
...Eating is my favorite part,” Taylor said as he picked red Skittles out of a bowl and held up a half-gnawed candy cane...
...turn. The animals adapted. In the tamed landscape in which they found themselves?neat rows of tomatoes and cornflowers and chrysanthemums for export to Europe?leopards came across man-made forests of towering sugarcane. Far from being just a make-do home, says forestry chief Ashokkumar N. Khadse, the cane fields proved to be an ideal leopard habitat. The animals flourished in the impenetrable thickets, producing two litters a year of which all six cubs would survive. From negligible numbers 20 years ago, there are now 100 resident adult leopards in an area half the size of Hong Kong; there...
George Thomas, an elderly guest dressed in a light suit and carrying a metal cane, smiled impishly under a pale cap and bounced his hips back and forth to a disco beat as he traced circles around the room...