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...susceptible to that influence too. But we are in the middle of Africa, and the challenges to democracy, poverty and development are central to our survival. This is a country of almost 80 million now, diverse cultures and language. So in a way, Ethiopia is a melting pot, a gateway between Africa and the Middle East...
...with the pilgrim mentality. Do they want friendly service and quality products while they are traveling? Of course. Do they want white-glove glitz? Not in great numbers," he said. The town is still scarred from the failure of two high-end properties--Drumoig Golf Centre and the Gateway Club--which didn't attract enough glitzy members...
Possibly. Radical clerics have declared jihad on the government in retaliation for the mosque siege. Suicide attacks are gathering pace in the North-West Frontier Province, the gateway to Afghanistan. A July 18 bombing there killed 17 Pakistani soldiers. And even religious groups once aligned with the government are turning against Musharraf. Machine-gun fire directed at the President's plane on July 6 marked the first assassination attempt on Musharraf's life in several years...
...recall the hubbub over the stem cell ads that aired during last year's Senate race in Missouri starring Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's). Those opposed, including many on the right, regard it as the destruction of early human life. Others see it as a potential gateway to human cloning. Still, polls suggest that more than half of Americans support such research, a fact that Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, says makes the President's intransigence on the issue even more exasperating...
Locals in Riga, the Latvian capital, have a favorite trivia question: what was the biggest city in the 17th century Swedish empire? (Hint: it wasn't Stockholm.) For centuries, the stately medieval port on the shores of the eastern Baltic Sea served as the bustling gateway between Russia and the West. Then, following World War II, it withered after the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe, cutting it off from the outside world. But Riga is now experiencing a renaissance. It may not have re-established the prominence it enjoyed 400 years ago, but as any of its trivia-wielding...