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...history of the Land Speed Record...
Tinka and his companion are what was until recently a rarity in Kenya's biggest-drawing game park: tour guides working in the land of their fathers. Though the vast stretch of savanna lies in territory owned by the Masai, until a few years ago the red-robed pastoralists made up less than 20% of those employed in its camps and lodges. Those who could find work did so mostly as low-paid camp guards. Yet there's a growing realization that the Masai and the 590-square-mile (1,530 sq km) national reserve share a common future...
Only a small part of Masai land has been set aside as reserve. Most of it lies in communal and private hands, where cattle graze alongside herds of eland and antelope. During the annual migration, floods of zebra and wildebeest arrive from Tanzania, and more elephants feed outside the protected area than in it. "Wildlife is just as good as any other gold," says Jackson Looseyia, 41, one of the first Masai to work as a guide in the reserve and co-owner of Rekero, the eight-tent camp where we stay the night...
...position on access to civilian refugees, whom it calls the beneficiaries of "the largest hostage rescue in the world's history." The Army's screening of civilians, for example, in which suspected LTTE fighters are weeded out of the civilian exodus, happens in a sort of no man's land just outside the combat zone, between the areas served by the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). That means there is no monitoring of how interrogations are being conducted, or how suspected LTTE fighters are being treated. "We still don't have access...
...Tata Motors' unusual sales scheme for the Nano could ease some of its financial pressures related to $3 billion in short-term debt taken on by the company to acquire Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford in March 2008. Because buyers placing orders for Nanos were required to pay for their cars in full, Tata Motors - India's largest car company - is receiving a $507 million cash infusion. Analysts say the revenue will reduce the company's liquidity problems and make it easier to refinance its outstanding loans, which come due next month. Tata Motors repaid $1 billion...