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...While the 10-minute balloon ascent may feel altogether too brief, the maximum altitude of 200 m offers a fresh perspective on how all the temples and waterways of the complex fit together. At ground level, it's not easy to appreciate the extent to which Angkor was fed by the waters of Tonle Sap, Cambodia's huge central lake, about 25 km away. Not even Henri Mouhot, the French adventurer who rediscovered the country's cultural shrine in 1859, got a view this good...
...added that the current optic fibers along which the weak light impulses are sent would only allow for two locations a maximum of 60 miles apart to communicate securely. Myers said this barrier could be overcome either with improved optic wiring, or by finding a way to send the weak light to a satellite...
...What do you need to do to become an agritourist attraction? Rules vary from country to country, and regimes can be highly bureaucratic. In the Veneto region of Italy, farmers providing holidays are limited to hosting 30 overnight guests per night for a maximum of 160 days per year and must produce over 50% of the food they sell to tourists. In Britain, Germany and elsewhere, there are stringent health and safety controls, including fire regulations and rules governing contact with farm animals. That might scare off a laid-back farmer, but in other places, especially poorer regions, including Poland...
Last year, after a police officer's widow in Reinstein's district had packed all her belongings, she was told she could not move into federally subsidized housing because she made $38 more than the maximum allowed. Reinstein asked Kerry's office for help. A staff member immediately called the woman and her son, Reinstein remembers. "The son called me in tears ... All of a sudden, [he's] getting calls from Senator Kerry's office. You don't understand how much that means." The woman was accepted into the housing complex. Today, whenever Reinstein sees Kerry, he always remembers...
...with speed and pace rather than guile, but they didn't give the ball away on speculative crosses. Holland evolved a high-speed game of passing on the ground in which players routinely rotated in and out of position in order to give the man on the ball the maximum number of playmaking options and to use all of the space on the field...