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...Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, 4,101 m Southeast Asia's highest mountain gets its name from Aki Nabalu ("Mountain of the Dead")?the term used by the local Kadazan people, who believe their ancestors inhabit its highest peaks. Start the trek early from Kinabalu Park HQ, and you can make your overnight stop at the guesthouse at Laban Rata (3,300 m) in time for dinner. Most climbers rise around 3 a.m. the next day to start the final assault on the summit, Low's Peak, and catch the sunrise. Guides can help you identify the unique mountain flora?like...
...hour haul to the top. Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia, 4,101 m Southeast Asia's highest mountain gets its name from Aki Nabalu ("Mountain of the Dead") - the term used by the local Kadazan people, who believe their ancestors inhabit its highest peaks. Start the trek early from Kinabalu Park HQ, and you can make your overnight stop at the guesthouse at Laban Rata (3,300 m) in time for dinner. Most climbers rise around 3 a.m. the next day to start the final assault on the summit, Low's Peak, and catch the sunrise. Guides can help you identify...
...million-barrel-a-day Yuganskneftegaz. Then state oil firm Rosneft snapped it up, using a shell company, for a bargain $9.4 billion. That drew catcalls even from Vladimir Putin's own economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov. Managers from Rosneft turned up on New Year's Eve at Yuganskneftegaz's Siberian HQ to claim the keys. Meanwhile, in Houston, Deutsche Bank is challenging the temporary bankruptcy protection won earlier by Yukos lawyers hoping to stave off the sale. The bank argues that Texas law has no place in a Russian tax dispute. The ruling prompted Putin to crack: "I am not even...
...With its corrugated iron roofing, bare concrete floors, and red plastic tables and chairs, there's little to distinguish the coffee shop that regulars call "HQ" from other similar establishments on Indonesia's Batam Island. But this is not just another place to eat noodles and drink beer. Batam is only a 15-minute ferry ride away from Singapore, the world's busiest port, and "HQ" is the rendezvous for scores of Indonesian sailors looking for work. Legitimate jobs are hard to come by, however, and that's why, says a thin, short man who calls himself Nurdin...
...disciplined hierarchy run by Karl Rove and manned by fervent Bush loyalists who take no prisoners, it could be a recipe for a landslide. Second-guessing is taboo under Rove, chiefly because Bush trusts him completely. But it's more like a privilege of membership at Kerry HQ, with the candidate himself often joining the debate. "Their candidate knows what he thinks," said a Democratic Party elder. "Ours feels no compunction to talk about all sides of an issue...