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...different trips and tours offered by Rocky Mountaineer Railtours, you travel in daylight hours so that you don't miss any of the heart-stopping scenery. Choose the GoldLeaf Service because you'll be assigned a seat in the dome car, which offers a 360[degrees] view of some of the most dramatic sights in the world, and you'll eat in a first-class dining room with picture windows. You can stand on an open-air observation platform at the rear of the train, the wind on your face and moose, bear, eagles, bighorn sheep and mountain goats...
...hundred years later, you can re-live that historic exploration--without the danger or the dogmeat--by taking the seven-day rail-and-road tour "In the Path of Lewis and Clark." Traveling part of the way by motor coach and the remainder aboard the American Spirit--a daylight train with refurbished passenger cars and vista domes from the late '40s and '50s--you set out from Billings, Mont., and end up near Astoria, Ore., journeying through large swaths of Lewis and Clark territory in between. You will cross the rugged Bitterroot Mountains, where the corps nearly starved; navigate...
Writing in the current issue of Science, the researchers report that the flies are somnolent mainly at night and active during daylight hours: that elderly (33-day-old) flies sleep less and more erratically than younger ones; that fruit flies deprived of sleep must nap longer to recover; that caffeine keeps them awake, and antihistamines make them that drowsy...
...easy for President Clinton. Only four days after the White House announced it would include a brief stop in Pakistan in the course of the President's visit to India and Bangladesh, one of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's lawyers, Iqbal Raad, was shot dead in broad daylight by unknown gunmen. Nawaz is being tried on charges of kidnapping and attempted murder, for allegedly attempting to prevent a plane carrying current military leader General Parvez Musharraf from landing - the event that triggered last year's coup. The Friday shooting came a day after Raad had begun to present Nawaz...
...recent news from Belgrade announced the murders of famous mafiosos and politicians. Predrag Bulatovic, the Yugoslav deputy defense minister, was shot Feb. 7 in broad daylight while having lunch in a restaurant. His assassination came soon after the murder of the notorious mafia king of Serbia, Zeljko Raznatovic (popularly known as "Arkan"), at one of the most luxurious Belgrade hotels. While many wonder who is ultimately responsible for these two murders or whether there is a connection between them, Yugoslavia's people shiver at the thought of the virtual non-existence of the country's legal system. If such important...