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...latest hunting ground is along the Sepik River. Dubbed the Amazon of the Pacific, the river writhes and loops 1,100 km from the country's heart through some of the wildest and most inaccessible terrain on earth. Cutting through mountain ranges, international borders, steamy jungles, swamps, lakes and flood plains, the Sepik monster nurtures some of p.n.g.'s most ancient tribes, who still live in tiny stilt huts and brave the river's treacherous currents, and large saltwater crocodiles, in their slender carved canoes...
...Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a powerful conservative group based in Washington, plans to recruit Christian activists for the fight through his daily radio talk show, his weekly TV program and a massive database of followers. He will be telling people to flood Capitol Hill with telephone calls and messages of support for the President's nominee. Barely an hour after Bush announced the O'Connor resignation, Sekulow had sent an e-mail to 850,000 sympathetic souls. "We want people to prepare for a battle," he told TIME...
...consolation: European confectionery and biscuitmakers say the new prices will make them more competitive. How sweet it is. - By Peter Gumbel Getting Posh In Prague Thanks to the likes of Easyjet and Sky Europe, the flow of budget-conscious tourists into Central and Eastern Europe is becoming a flood: visitors to Budapest are up 37% during the first quarter of 2005; international arrivals in Warsaw in March were up 35% to 509,000; and Serbia has announced $2.8 billion in subsidies to kick-start tourism there. But having skimped on the fares, it seems many tourists want to swank...
...make their way to Edinburgh to campaign for Africa's poor. He even wants another Dunkirk of small boats to ferry activists across the English Channel; much better TV than taking Ryanair. Geldof is also mounting a worldwide string of "Live 8" concerts the weekend before to unleash a flood of public concern for Africa he hopes will induce the Gleneagles crew to write some bigger aid checks. But the interesting thing is how much kabuki has entered the relationship between the protesters and the guys in suits. They are using each other, and enjoying it. One leader...
...house rather than bank it. If he were alive, I'm sure he would be scolding my Uncle Adam for selling the property for a mere $22,000 a few years back. Who would have thought that reading an article about real estate would awaken such a flood of memories...