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...shoppers who want to enjoy clear waters, sandy beaches and fantastic summer weather far from tourists and prying paparazzi lenses. State officials refuse to disclose the actual number of islands for sale, but high-end real estate experts say 17 barren outcrops alone are up for grabs in the Ionian Sea, near Nidri Lefkada, pictured, and Skorpios, Onassis' private retreat. Paloma Picasso, fashion designer and daughter of the Spanish artist Pablo, recently bought the 540,000-sq-m island of Petalas nearby. Much of the growing enthusiasm stems from changes to Greek property laws in 2003 that allow foreigners...
...script follows what is known about Alexander, who left the Ionian peninsula to sweep the fabled Babylon and India into his ambitious embrace. But Stone, who wrote the film with Christopher Kyle and Laeta Kalogridis, sees the old Greek fables as horror stories, Olympus as Hades and the Macedonian royal family--led by one-eyed Philip (Val Kilmer) and his spiteful bride Olympias (Angelina Jolie)--drowning in lust and supernal rancor. In this realm, the king is the last man conscious at an orgy, just as Stone is still drunk on the pricey, preposterous adventure of moviemaking...
...deterrents in place are impressive. NATO will provide AWACS aircraft to monitor Greek airspace. The U.S. Sixth Fleet will patrol the Mediterranean while the Turkish and Italian navies cruise the Aegean and Ionian seas. A 70,000-strong force of Greek police and military--nearly twice the number of troops deployed in Kosovo in 1999--will patrol the country. Security personnel will outnumber athletes 7 to 1. Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians...
...electricity sputtered off in Athens. Thousands of people, including Transport Minister Michalis Liapis, were stranded in the city's glittering new metro; hundreds more were stuck in elevators for up to four hours. The blackout soon spread to the country's agrarian south and the Ionian Islands, the worst power outage in Greece in decades. Authorities did their best to reassure the public, but on Thursday a fresh power cut caused by a faulty cable struck the Acropolis and two neighboring districts for an hour. Pantelis Kapros, president of the Greek Energy Regulatory Authority, reminded everyone that...
...force presses you back into your seat at takeoff from the air base at Aviano, Italy, or from an aircraft carrier in the Ionian Sea, you are really never flying solo. You and your wingmen move into a complicated choreography charted for each of the 400 daily sorties. Depending on how far you've had to fly--B-2s fly more than 15 hours from the U.S.--it's likely your plane will slow down to gulp fuel from an aerial tanker before your final run into hostile airspace. One of every three flights is an aerial tanker sortie--more...