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With good behavior, inmates can move up to Camp Two, then One, in hopes of new privileges--bottled water and a cup, a checkerboard and checkers, more exercise time. There are three juvenile prisoners, ages 13 to 15, who live outside the gates of Camp Delta at Camp Iguana. Once an officer's cottage, it has a magnificent view of the ocean, which none of the underage detainees had seen before coming to Guantanamo. Inside are two bedrooms, each with two beds, and a room with a TV and a VCR. Videos with animals are popular with the kids; their...
Surprisingly, United's decision to return to the federal trough is drawing flak within the industry. In a rare display of intra-airline bickering, Leo Mullin, the head of Delta Airlines and the industry's key lobbyist for government assistance since 9/11, said, "The ATSB should be limited to overseeing the outstanding loans. Then it should go out of business." Added Mullin, whose carrier did not apply to the ATSB for money: "Let the marketplace work." That's easy for him to say, since Delta will probably survive. Some other airlines flying today will...
...hard travel writer (which Schultz is, and one who claims descent from Mark Twain at that) could imagine that visiting all of these disparate places is remotely achievable. Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating?even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book...
...Labbé says his job is to "translate the demands of civil society into a language my colleagues can understand." He also tries to identify relief organizations and other groups working in poor countries who could help smooth relations with local people. One such project is in the Niger delta, where the firm is funding a project by a Brazilian-French nongovernmental organization called Pro-Natura that's trying to help local communities set up democratic decision-making bodies and develop the economy. "They are not doing this to save the planet," says Guy F. Reinaud, Pro-Natura International...
...hard travel writer (which Schultz is - and one who claims descent from Mark Twain at that) could imagine that visiting all of these disparate places is remotely achievable. Nonetheless, just the notion alone is salivating - even if you will never ride an elephant in Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, or saunter languidly past the ruins of the ancient Guatemalan city of Antigua ("Spain's capital of all of middle America, until the epic earthquake of 1773," according to the book). The guide's page-long entries each include a lively explanation...