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...Maison Arabe The inn's traditional Moroccan waxed walls display Gebbah rugs, copper lamps and carved cedar doors and balconies. Hide away in the candlelit courtyard by the 18th century fountain or eat tapas in the piano bar. 1 Derb Assehbé, Bab Doukkala, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 70 10; www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium...
...piece of junk trailing the shuttle, and several others seen floating by the shuttle's windows, might never be definitively identified. Astronauts described the objects variously as a plastic baggie, some copper wire, two ring-shaped items and a piece of foil or shimmering cloth. NASA is guessing the largest bit was a piece of pliable plastic used as a tile shim, which could have dropped off the shuttle during a test firing of the shuttle's maneuvering jets...
...recreation? Of the top seven counties, Gilpin has a state park, portions of two national forests, and no supermarkets; Grand County is the western portal to the state's most primo real estate, Rocky Mountain National Park; and Summit has three ski areas: Breckenridge, Copper Mountain and Keystone. Eagle County (where Vail is located) has 19,316 registered voters and 44,421 registered vehicles, an average of 2 1/2 vehicles per voter...
...week that China's ambassador to Lusaka warned that Beijing might cut off diplomatic relations with that country if its voters elected a Taipei-leaning opposition candidate in upcoming presidential elections - an allegation Beijing denied - it seemed obvious China was looking out for its growing mining interests in the copper-rich country. But as China's influence in Africa grows - Chad, an oil-rich neighbor of Sudan's, cut ties with Taiwan last month and recognized Beijing - Western diplomats hope that Beijing will start taking other issues into account. "How to get China on board?" says the ICG's Baldo...
...balance sheet, a plan to cut 12,000 jobs and the building of a zippy new mobile-phone network; Telstra's board has promised to pay a dividend of 28? a share for the year to June 2007. On the downside, Telstra resembles an antediluvian creature, raised when fixed copper lines were king and competition on lucrative products was insignificant. It's unlikely the sale managers will have trouble moving the paper to the big institutional traders and professional investors. But our family's small holdings of Telstra won't change; they'll stay out of sight for that rainy...