Word: desertions
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...civil rights. The Palestinians are tightly controlled in Lebanon, barred from all but menial labor. "They talk about Naameh as an illegitimate security zone, but we will never take sides against the patriotic Lebanese army," says this grizzled veteran of the Palestinian revolution dressed in an old U.S. army desert camouflage uniform and sandals. Still, the reinforcements at Naameh and the alert fighters suggests that despite talk of peace, the militants of the PFLP-GC are readying for a confrontation...
...some, these feudal pieties are precisely the problem. Compared to Goa's fashionable beach resorts, or Kerala's ayurvedic spas, Rajasthan's desert landscapes, mustachioed warriors and women in billowing, rainbow-colored ghaghra are seen as tired staples of worthy travel documentaries. Yet no place in India, perhaps anywhere in the world, has the density and variety of Rajasthan's fabulous monuments. Its three most famous destinations-the pink city of Jaipur, the blue city of Jodhpur and the lake city of Udaipur-teem with hidden delights, from bustling local markets to old observatories to tranquil gardens. Further afield, ancient...
...using hardier grasses like fescue in the Pacific Northwest and paspalum in Hawaii, Florida and Majorca. These drought- tolerant varieties don't require as much water for irrigation. And designers are working with what the land has to offer--the days of creating a pine forest out of a desert, à la Steven Wynn in Las Vegas, are numbered. "I take advantage of Mother Nature," says designer John Robinson. "At Blue Heron in Medina [Ohio], I had ravine after ravine, so I positioned the course to hit over those, like a steeplechase...
...portable could be the key to its long-term success. "The biggest problem with Internet radio is that it's stuck on the PC," says Slacker CEO Dennis Mudd. "What you really want is this device you can play in your living room, in your car or in the desert walking around." In addition to Sprint's move to put Pandora on phones, SanDisk recently demonstrated a prototype portable player that could run Pandora, and Slacker plans to sell a $150 iPod-like player this summer that can get wireless music downloads from its website...
...Darfur atrocities described by President Bush as genocide are perpetrated by the Arab supremacist Janjaweed militia, with support from Sudanese troops, against the farmer population of Darfur, who are mostly black Africans. In four years of fighting in this eastern, semi-desert region of Sudan, 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced. Last November, Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir finally agreed to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7,000-strong African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Darfur. Then, after five months of stalling, the Sudanese President gave the go-ahead in April...