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Three days a week, year-round, the train travels between Vancouver and Toronto, stopping in Jasper, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Winnipeg. A Silver & Blue ticket, which costs from $747 to $2,128, includes sleeping accommodations, meals and exclusive use of the Park Car with its dome section and lounges (www.viarail.ca, 888-VIARail). --By Valerie Marchant...
...chagrined that the pontiff's hosts in the Holy City will be the Israelis, Israel is unhappy that he'll meet with the Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti on the Temple Mount, a site on which the third-holiest site in Islam - the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock - is built atop the ruins of Judaism's holiest temple. "The Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to make the trip appear to confirm its claim on East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, while the Israelis will do everything to prevent that and to stake their...
...South Carolina doesn't do something about its flag problem, the Department of Justice might. No legal action is being considered to remove the Confederate flag from the state's capitol dome (there are probably no grounds), but the department may condone objections by some of its lawyers to attending advanced training courses at DOJ's sparkling new National Advocacy Center in Columbia...
...centerpiece, literally and dramatically, is the planetarium itself, located in the upper half of the sphere. The stars inside actually twinkle, thanks to the Hayden's one-of-a-kind Zeiss Mark IX projector. It even projects stars you can't see, unless you bring binoculars into the dome, and shows constellations with 3-D reality. A second projection system, driven by a Silicon Graphics supercomputer loaded with real astronomical data, lets visitors "fly" beyond the Milky Way. As they look back on their gradually diminishing home, it becomes just one more speck amid a lacy network of galaxies...
...Amboseli National Park to the eastern edge of nearby Longinye swamp. Our job: to count and identify the elephants as observers in an airplane estimate numbers from above. Behind us, across the border in Tanzania, looms the hulking mass of Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, its snow-capped dome giving way to gently sloping flanks that shimmer blue in the dying light. Crumpled along the horizon to the west and east are distant smaller mountains: Chyulu, Ol Dionyo Orok and Longido. To the north is nothing but huge sky and endless plain...