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...worries—there are still plenty of opportunities for those willing to go the extra mile. If cooking is your thing, the Laramie River Dude Ranch in scenic “North Central Colorado” is looking for campfire prep cooks. Refine your skills over an open flame by preparing food for pampered city folk on their overnight rides. Don’t want to lose all the fun facts you learned in Life Sciences this year? Join the crew at Barnacle Busters of South Florida and perfect your marine biology while scrubbing the keel of the yacht...
...early age. As an 8-year-old in his debut kart race just outside London, Lewis Hamilton charged "more like a mature driver than a novice," recalls Martin Hines, owner of the Zip Kart racing company. "There was a little spark about him." That spark is now in full flame. Just 22, and in his rookie season in Formula One, Hamilton - the first black driver in auto racing's blue-ribbon championship - is tied for the lead in the drivers' standings. Following a third-place finish during the season opener in Australia last month, Hamilton sped to second place...
...that look as if they were built to World War I specifications. The Hamreen Mountains to the right are practically deserted save for a series of sentry posts silhouetted along the ridge line. And waiting straight ahead at the gates of Kirkuk is a natural-gas flare, an eternal flame that the locals call Babagurgur, which is the symbol of this oil-rich city...
...Saturday, thousands of Christian worshipers surged toward the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Jesus Christ is said to have risen bodily from his tomb. Many of the devout carried candles for the "Holy Fire Ritual," in which Orthodox priests descend to Christ's tomb and emerge with a flame that they say appears spontaneously - miraculous proof, believers say, that Christ has not forgotten his followers...
...Moments later, the gloomy church glows incandescent as worshipers press forward to light their candles from the so-called "heavenly fire." Sometimes it isn't just the candles that catch fire - beards and hair crackle spectacularly in the chaotic crush around the flame-bearing priests. Skeptics denounce the ritual as a 1,200-year-old sleight-of-hand whose secret is passed from one generation of high priests to the next. But for the thousands of gathered worshipers, it was proof of God's existence and Christ's resurrection...