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...Today, the locals flock here to listen to jazz, snack on sushi and parade around in the latest Zara jeans. Down the street, billboards advertising Swedish banks (and McDonald's) mingle with a backdrop of copper-green medieval spires. Visitors wanting to understand the city's deep commitment to free trade could explore its many history museums. Or they could take a look at something more current: the carefree faces around them on this early summer night...
...surprisingly, disenchantment with the nation's political leaders runs deep. Nigeria has been a nominal democracy since 1999. But international monitors have questioned the fairness of the April 21 elections in which outgoing President Olusegun Obasanjo was replaced by his favored candidate Umaru Yar'Adua, a previously obscure state Governor. "These elections have not lived up to the hopes and expectations of the Nigerian people, and the process cannot be considered to have been credible," said Max van den Berg, chief E.U. observer, after the vote. When Yar'Adua was sworn in as President last Tuesday, he vowed to improve...
...sell-by dates. Madeleine, a 60-year-old mother of 10, lives with several thousand others in the area around the dump. When the truck arrives, it's a ferocious feast. Hundreds of scavengers descend on the skip, elbowing their way into the trash and plunging their hands in deep. "The supermarkets are the best," says Madeleine. "It's in boxes, all arranged." Nor do the inhabitants of Mindwube just find food. There are "plates, dresses, jewelry, liqueurs, TVs, dvds, fridges, children's toys and mobile phones," says André Boussougou, 40. His specialty is aluminum, which he sorts...
...state murder indictments until 2005, when Fannie Lee's testimony helped convict and imprison Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. Following a funeral service at the chapel that memorialized her son, Fannie Lee was buried next to James' grave in Meridian, Miss. She was 84. Since 1964, when Alvin--the deep-diving submarine that engineer Harold Froehlich designed--was launched, the vessel, the world's oldest research sub, has become a model for deep-sea exploration. Owned by the Navy and operated out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Alvin has made more than 4,120 dives to date. Among...
Bridge the divide. First, talk to your spouse about your expectations: what age you'll retire and what you'll do. "Most couples start with a number, just a number based on what they think they'll need in retirement, without any real deep thought and consideration," says Robin Dziuba, a wealth- management adviser with Merrill Lynch in Providence, R.I. Such as? "How they'll spend their day, what type of organizations they'd like to join, how much they'd like to travel. Once they do that, it's easier to find out what income they need to support...