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...minutes out of Robertsfield airport, the plane began to pitch and shake. That prompted a hurried announcement over the intercom: "Don't panic. The flight - it's OK." Passengers aboard the aging Russian plane laughed or glanced out the window at the lush Liberian countryside below. Most of them were used to flying West Africa's skies. An air pocket was nothing. An engine falling off - that would be something to worry about. A few minutes later the plane had landed safely and the passengers, most of them bound for Freetown in neighboring Sierra Leone, were ushered into the airport...
...things in Las Vegas are actually meant to be there. Not the ersatz Eiffel Tower at the Paris casino, not the white tigers from India that frolic nightly with Siegfried and Roy, and certainly not the lush residential lawns that grow emerald-green year round in the desert region. But while the landmark replicas and exotic felines draw tourists and dollars, the well-coiffed lawns drain the city's resources because of the amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with...
They may well be gnawing their knuckles over that decision right now because Rashid's conquest of the realm of product design is all but complete. A lush and suitably worshipful retrospective of his work hits bookstores this month. There was a crowd around anything with his stamp on it--including stools, chess sets and storage units--at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City in May. More than 2 million North Americans are throwing their rubbish into a receptacle he designed, while 750,000 or so park their rears on one of his cheapo plastic chairs...
...Balata's narrow streets, the chaotic traffic writhes slowly and fractiously between the cinder-block auto shops in the simmering heat of spring on the valley floor. More than 800 feet above the dusty camp, on the lush peak of Mount Gerizim, a monumental structure is rising, half Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, half Taj Mahal. It is the new home of a leading member of the Masri family, the most powerful and wealthy clan in Nablus. It is a reminder, too, of the differences between the unruly refugee camp and the Palestinian metropolis in the West Bank, and a symbol...
Among the patrician grande dames, the Breakers is regarded as royalty. Its facade is patterned after Rome's Villa Medici. The interior is a riot of tapestries, Renaissance paintings, marble and lush gardens. Until recently, guests who returned year after year to enjoy the grandeur were mostly older. "This was not a resort that was historically family friendly," admits Paul Leone, president of Flagler System, the private, family-run company that has always owned the Breakers. "Back in the '20s, for example, the scene was very formal--the men in black tie." In the mid-'90s, management reached...