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...karaoke's addictive quality: after such performances as a song-and-dance interpretation of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, a duet of Sonny and Cher's I Got You, Babe and a raucous singalong on Aha's Take on Me, our exhilarated group decided to extend the planned two-hour session to three. As Fox, an admitted "terrible singer," says: "It's about the natural high you get from singing." So book way in advance, as 250 divas-by-night regularly swell the joint to capacity. If they don't have your tune, make sure to ask for the next...
...wide-eyed souls. Today, you can travel in style, in a chauffeur-driven, mint-green-and-chrome '50s-style car. The Havana Transport Company is typical of the city's fast-growing entrepreneurialism - it's owned by a South African who has emigrated to Mozambique. For $50 an hour, Jaime Sumbane with his Panama hat and Dona Flor cigar will take you on a tour of the city. Driving through Maputo, the potholes are still there, even outside Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel's house, but foreign investment, most notably from the Chinese government, which sent the funds...
...thunderheads on the horizon opened like a curtain, and a speedboat came rocketing towards us. Casta?o had sent the boat. Thoughtfully, he'd also provided rain slickers for us. We bounded across the choppy water, into the seam of black clouds. The journey lasted an hour, with lightning spearing around us. Finally, we sighted land. I don't know if it was Panama or Colombia; it was all jungle. But the launch pulled up at a dock and a farmhouse materialized in the mist. I could make out the silhouettes of towering mercenaries who looked like they had been outfitted...
...other side of the hill, he can land there in a small plane." We called Ramo in Cartagena. Ramo was an expert pilot, a stunt flier and he enthusiastically agreed to meet us in a cow pasture at 7 a.m. We spent the night in a lodge half an hour's walk down the coast...
...year-old monarch settled into a stuffed sofa for a 1-hour TIME interview for a story to appear in the coming week's magazine, he drew a dark picture of a region consumed by conflicts old and new, threatened by emerging Sunni-Shiite tensions and at risk of being completely destabilized if the U.S. attacks Iran. "I believe the Lebanese war dramatically opened all our eyes to the fact that if we don't solve the Palestinian issue, the future looks pretty bleak for the Middle East," he said. "I'm one of the most optimistic people...