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...Travel Book, it skims over every country in the world?all 192 of them, plus a handful of territories?in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There is lots of zippy trivia as well. "No es facil" (it's not easy) is, we are told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know more about life Down Under? Then you're urged to check out David Malouf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Now | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...Travel Book, it skims over every country in the world - all 192 of them, plus a handful of territories - in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There is lots of local knowledge as well. "No es facil" (it's not easy) is, we are told, the essential phrase to learn in Cuba. If you're bound for Botswana, make sure you try a glass of bojalwa, the local sorghum beer. Want to know more about life Down Under? Then you're urged to check out David Malouf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Now | 11/3/2004 | See Source »

...hear George W. Bush tell it, this budget stuff es muy facil: after paying off $2 trillion of debt, $417 billion in interest and $1.6 trillion in tax breaks, he will still have $1 trillion in reserve over the next decade. Democrats say Bush has made enough expensive promises to spend that trillion almost three times over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Many Ways Can You Spend $1 Trillion? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Only a few weeks ago, when Argentines still believed that things were going well for them in the Falklands, shop windows throughout the country were plastered with sky-blue-and-white signs proclaiming UNIDOS, ES MÁS FACIL (United, it's easier). By last week those painted proclamations had faded in the weak sunlight of the southern winter-and so had Argentina's façade of political unity. As British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher confirmed to President Ronald Reagan that Argentina would have no say in the future of the disputed Falkland Islands, the defeated nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: The Bitter Taste of Defeat | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...totals for both Munich and Montreal. While refusing to give an official cost estimate, the Soviet government does say that income from sports lotteries, tour ism, commemorative stamp sales, souvenirs and television rights should more than cover building costs. The Soviets also point out that all the new Olympic facil ities will be put to good use after the games. The Olympic Village (see box), for example, will become a housing project for 12,000 lucky citizens. Indeed, the 1980 Olympics will be not just a sporting event, but a festival of architecture and technology. Some of the highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Warming Up for the 1980 Olympics | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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