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...days before the great annual horse race that crowds marquees, backyards and pubs around Australia, the form and fortunes of one bay mare fueled a national conversation. Makybe Diva, the two-time Melbourne Cup winner who'd been passed over when she was offered for sale as a foal, was on the cusp of history and almost everyone wanted a front-row seat. Could the mare do it? Would it matter if she didn't? Would she even run? What might the television crews, peeping through the bushes surrounding her trainer Lee Freedman's coastal property, reveal about her training...
College costs are rising faster than inflation, but there are still bargains to be found. The lost-test night mare comes true...
...every corporation's night-mare: a throng of rowdy activists gathers outside company buildings to protest alleged environmental and human-rights abuses. That was the scene in New York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices of JPMorgan Chase to decry what they claimed was the bank's underwriting of illegal logging in Indonesia, and human-rights abuses tied to a Chase-funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank...
That is putting it mildly. Tracey Lewis, 28, admits she is obsessed by polo. "I like most being wide open down the field," she exclaims, "feeling my shirt rippling, going 40 m.p.h., going to goal on my best mare. It's just a feeling like you're flying. This totally turns me on." Lewis, who owns a Beverly Hills p.r. firm, is one of the growing number of women in the predominantly male sport. Celebrities, including Bo Derek, Stefanie Powers and Sam Shepard, are mounting up as well. Danger is little deterrent. In Hawaii a month ago, a player...
...Mongolian wife, Tsendsuren, have been providing basic creature comforts for intrepid visitors to Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator. At their guesthouse, tel: (976) 9909 1899, backpackers pay $5-$15 for one of 50 beds per night. Travelers are usually delighted to trade sleeping mats for queen-size beds and mare's milk for Cashell's signature turkey melts, which he serves up at the hostel's UB Deli. He has a library of DVDs, too, for those who eventually get bored of gazing at the forested Haert Khaan mountain range...