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Freitag thinks there's a pent-up demand for these hotels. When Starwood introduced the Westin Heavenly Bed, he says, "everyone thought it was, if not crazy, then highly unorthodox. Now name any brand, unless you're low-end economy; they all have deluxe beds." Starwood countered with the Heavenly Bath, and the industry followed. This time, says Freitag, "other brands aren't about to let Starwood get out in front...
Deputy forest conservator Raghuvir Singh Shekhawat, who took over the reins at Ranthambore in November 2005, says the park was "in chaos" when he arrived. Driven by demand for pelts--a single tiger skin in India was then worth about $1,200, a sixth of the price today but still more than the average annual income--poachers had laid siege to the park. Meanwhile, the proximity of villages, whose residents collected firewood and grazed cattle in the reserve, drove away the cats' natural prey and cramped their love life (tigers seem to mate successfully only when they feel secure...
Hundreds of lawyers launched a nationwide, two-day protest to demand the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, whose dismissal of 60 senior judges last year prompted earlier lawyer-led rioting. The "long march" to Islamabad is the first large-scale protest against the new, democratically elected government, which had pledged to reinstate the judges...
...Coke is focusing on reducing water in its plants and conserving water with the help of its partner NGOs. In the meantime, there's no prospect of demand for its products drying up. "The reality is that people will continue to need to drink liquids," says Seabright. "We're going to be in business." Always Coca-Cola? As long as its taps...
...than a year, Obama relied on conventional means to confront the blogosphere's superheated rumor mill - to little effect. The "fact-check" feature on his website, for instance, only seemed to spawn more, and wilder, rumors. A mention there of Obama's birth certificate spurred National Review Online to demand that he produce it to dispel groundless reports that Obama was actually born in Kenya and therefore would be constitutionally ineligible to be President; that his middle name is not Hussein but Muhammad; and that his mother actually named him Barry. That National Review article in turn became fodder...