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...treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder You don't go to Trasierra, you escape to it: from the dead heat of Seville in summer, from the crush of tourists in cooler months - or, for regular visitor Kate Moss, from the unwelcome intrusions of the paparazzi. The hotel, converted from a 16th century Andalusian manor, is a cosy redoubt defended by 3,000 acres of olive and orange groves in the Sierra Morena, an hour's drive northeast...
...computer simulation staged by Taiwan's armed forces?made headlines as evidence of the island's vulnerability in the face of the mainland's growing military might and underscored the frostiness of the cross-strait relationship as both sides wrap up war games. Chinese General Wang Zaixi promised to "crush" any move toward Taiwan's independence, and Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu fired back that the strait was in a state of "quasi...
Mercury ain't for sissies. Say what you will about the difficulty of sending a spacecraft to a distant place like Saturn, it's Mercury, the first rock from the sun--with its crush of solar gravity and its inferno of solar heat--that presents the greatest challenges. NASA has dared go to Mercury only once before, 30 years ago, when Mariner 10 made three flybys. Now NASA is set to try again, with a spacecraft called MESSENGER, which is scheduled to take off as early as this week on a mission to become the first probe to orbit...
...like meat on a bone and feed her to the dogs." Another included a mock obituary for the Welsh actress, who is married to her Traffic castmate Michael Douglas. The letters left the actress "hysterical," her husband testified. Knight, says her lawyer, sent them because she harbored a crush on Douglas and was upset by a tabloid story claiming that Zeta-Jones was cheating on him. After facing the couple in court, Knight took sleeping pills in her jail cell and had to be hospitalized. A judge has ordered her to undergo a psychological evaluation before resuming the hearing...
...government invited BG to form a consortium with Eni, Royal Dutch/ Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, Conoco-Phillips and Inpex of Japan to exploit it. That was no easy task. In winter, the shallow waters of this part of the Caspian turn into ice floes that - carried by high winds - can crush conventional offshore rigs. So Agip, the operating arm of Italy's ENI charged with developing the field, built concrete-and-steel islands from which to drill. Even more daunting, Kashagan oil lies below the spawning grounds of the Caspian's beluga sturgeon, the sole source of world-renowned beluga caviar...