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...transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes up to six weeks. But relax: only your guides - drawn from the ranks of Australia's last generation of drovers - will do the full stint. City slickers join for a piffling five days at a time, and the conditions are hardly onerous. Tents are carpeted, there's a portable bar and library, meals include hot buffet breakfasts and gourmet dinners, and bathrooms and flushing toilets are housed in two trucks following the herd. Crocodile Dundee types might not approve...
Among her goals, Higginbotham hopes to organize a symposium on health careers, encourage students in African studies to think about global health issues academically and in application, and find ways for students to join healthcare projects. Noting a surge in interest for African languages—the department ran out of food and seats at their open house for the languages program—Higginbotham wants to emphasize the linguistic portion of the department. And she wants to see more collaboration with Harvard’s other schools...
...last thing the U.S. can afford is another war. Two unfinished wars--one on Iran's eastern border, the other on its western flank--are daily depleting America's treasury and overworked armed forces. Most of Washington's allies in those adventures have made it clear they will not join another gamble overseas. What's more, the Bush team, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has done more diplomatic spadework on Iran than on any other project in its 51/2 years in office. For more than 18 months, Rice has kept the Administration's hard-line faction...
DIED. Joachim Fest, 79, celebrated German author of the psychologically incisive, globally acclaimed 1973 work Hitler; in Kronberg-im-Taunus, Germany. A political conservative whose father was fired from his job for refusing to join the Nazi Party, Fest shed light on the Third Reich by examining its leadership in dispassionate, vivid detail. He attributed Hitler's rise not primarily to economics, as many German historians have, but to the abdication of moral responsibility by educated Germans...
...transported in trucks these days, and make it to market in a matter of hours, doing it the old way takes up to six weeks. But relax: only your guides - drawn from the ranks of Australia's last generation of drovers - will do the full stint. City slickers join for a piffling five days at a time, and the conditions are hardly onerous. Tents are carpeted, there's a portable bar and library, meals include hot buffet breakfasts and gourmet dinners, and bathrooms and flushing toilets are housed in two trucks following the herd. Crocodile Dundee types might not approve...