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...step above a staycation, camping is a cheap way to get your trip on. ReserveAmerica.com which works with more than 4,000 campgrounds nationwide, set a record in February, booking some 20,000 reservations in a single 24-hour period. And during these tightfisted times, companies like REI and Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) are reporting an uptick in the sale of family tents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Camping for the Hotel Set | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...question now is whether Rozsa, a Hungarian-Bolivian, felt that way about Bolivian President Evo Morales. Rozsa was killed early last Thursday morning in a hotel room in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. The government claims that he, along with four others, was part of a terrorist cell that was plotting to assassinate Bolivia's first indigenous President as well as other high government officials. "He went to Santa Cruz because he wanted to fight for autonomy of that region, which he said was his new and most important task," says Rozsa's close friend, Zoltan Brady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: The Bizarre Life and Death of a Failed Assassin | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...College—to two ranked opponents. Harvard came up big on Sunday, however, as the Crimson scored a combined 38 goals in yesterday’s doubleheader. The team now awaits a decision from the Collegiate Water Polo Association to find out whether it will play in the Eastern Championship, which will be hosted at Blodgett Pool this weekend. “We went to the championships with the intention of winning the division but we put ourselves in too many tight situations,” Harvard coach Erik Farrar said. “We have to take these...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Championship Split Leaves Playoff Fate Unknown | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...Tigers had built an earth bund, several meters high, around a narrow 12-km (7.5-mile) no-fire zone on the eastern shores of the Mulaithivu lagoon and, according to reports from the area, had set up gun encampments every 30 meters (98 feet) or so along it. According to Laxman Hulugalle, Director General of the Sri Lankan defense ministry's Media Centre for National Security, after overnight fighting, troops captured a small stretch of the fortified earth bund on the morning of April 20, and between 25,000 and 30,000 civilians trapped behind the bund streamed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noose Tighter on Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...time, anti-indigenous racism is widespread in Bolivia's east. Right-wing opposition groups were responsible for violent attacks on indigenous citizens last year before January's constitutional referendum, which gave Bolivia's majority indigenous more political power but had many worried that Santa Cruz and other resource-rich eastern provinces might try to secede from the poorer highlands, where the capital, La Paz, is located. Morales himself went on a five-day hunger strike last week to get Bolivia's Congress to pass an electoral law that gives the indigenous more legislative seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plot to Kill Bolivia's Leftist President? | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

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