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...region around Ancona, which is pushing the area as "Italy's best-kept secret," has put big ads in British newspapers and launched two English-language websites. Regional promotion-office director Paolo Galli proudly says, "We are on 200 London doubledecker buses." With a coastline of breathtaking seascapes and jewel-like towns the area has much to promote...
...pressed to find Ji'an in any English-language guidebook on China. Nestled deep in the mountains dividing China and North Korea, the capital of the ancient Koguryo kingdom?that stretched from Siberia to Seoul in its 5th century heyday?has always been insular. Even today, reaching this historical jewel of China's Jilin province is no easy task. From Beijing it means an overnight train to the Manchurian sprawl of Shenyang, then another eastward to the industrial city of Tonghua, followed by a gut-churning hour in a taxi via the hairpin turns and dense forests of the precipitous...
...head. One person who has sat across the bargaining table from him says he has a "frictionless mind." Other negotiators complain that Malone has an annoying penchant for tweaking the deal to his advantage just as closure seems at hand. When he finally decided to sell his crown jewel to AT&T for $37 billion in stock in 1998, many competitors and partners alike wanted to wish him good riddance...
...science, the former U.S. astronaut William Anders. Taken in December 1968 from Apollo 8 - the first manned vehicle in lunar orbit - the image is of the earth rising above the moon's arid, lifeless horizon. Revealing the planet for the first time as a pristine blue and white jewel in the black void of space, the picture became an instant classic, inspiring poets and becoming a symbol of the ecology movement. "It is truly the most beautiful photo ever taken," says Yann Arthus-Bertrand, 56, a French aerial photographer who for the past 10 years has been snapping shots...
...merely multiply the INS workload without enhancing security? Since January, the INS has been testing a new fingerprint-identification system at the border and has used it to arrest 1,400 wanted criminals. None had terrorist ties, but two were accused murderers and one was an alleged international jewel thief. Though the Sept. 11 hijackers took pains to enter this country initially on legal visas, it seems unlikely that any self-respecting al-Qaeda operative will send a "just moved" postcard to the INS. Even some officials within the agency are tempering their hopes. "There's a way around...