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...billion spent annually on the appreciation of wildlife. That includes binoculars, spotting scopes, cameras, records and tapes of bird sounds, computerized software for keeping bird lists, and bird tours that reach any corner of the world, from Siberia and Mongolia (23 days, $3,595 from Wings, Inc.) to Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion (25 days, $3,775 from Field Guides Inc.). Though some birders regard their hobby as a naturalist rejection of high-tech culture, the rebuke often requires frequent jet trips, Leitz 10 x 40-B Trinovid field glasses, Bausch & Lomb or Questar spotting scope and a Sony...
During his twenty-two year career, the graduate of the University of Lucknow has served as both the Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius and the Ambassador to Bahrain...
Singh describes his post as Indian High Commissioner in Mauritius--an island in the southwest Indian Ocean--as the height of his foreign service career...
...place like Mauritius where 70 percent of the population is of Indian origin, such an assignment is both a difficult and a privileged one for me," says Singh. "It's difficult, because the Indian people make more demands on me and expect more from me because I'm Indian, and let me tell you, it's quite hard to fulfill their needs," he explains...
...formidable Soviet fleet also has flaws, despite its success at projecting Soviet power in ports of call from Cuba to Mauritius. Although larger than the U.S. Navy in numbers of warships, the Soviet surface fleet still lacks anything as sophisticated as a U.S. aircraft carrier. Soviet nuclear-powered submarines are thought to give off so much radiation that Soviet sailors morbidly joke that members of the northern fleet are easily identifiable be cause they glow in the dark. During the past eight months, one nuclear sub foundered in deep water off the Siberian pen insula of Kamchatka and a second...