Word: mecca
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...committed to making it better every year," explained Jonathan Mayers, a promoter from New Orleans who co-founded Bonnaroo in 2002 around the idea of spotlighting local Southern artists. As Mayers has watched Bonnaroo grow, he and his collaborators have dedicated themselves to transforming the event into a regional mecca that fuses a range of musical styles with technology, media and art. "We want to challenge our audience and we want to introduce people to new music and artists that they've never seen," he says. "We always wanted to expand and open up our programming to include...
...From gourmet potato chips to candied dried fruit, packaged snacks that have the look and feel of health foods are increasingly popular. Whole Foods, the mecca of organic, good-for-you eats, carries some of these, as do local health food stores around the country. Experts warn that though they may sound nutritious or may be billed as "organic," salty, fried veggie chips, for instance, are often more tasty than healthy. And health-watchers steer away from sweetened, packaged "fruit" products- such as fried banana chips- which can be high in saturated fat and contain far more sugar than...
...self-employed and uninsured chiropractor from Eunice, La., learned that it would cost $90,000 to get the herniated disk in his neck repaired. So, over the objections of his doctors, he turned to the Internet and made an appointment with Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok, the marble-floored mecca of the medical trade that--with its liveried bellhops, fountains and restaurants--resembles a grand hotel more than a clinic. There a U.S.-trained surgeon fixed Miller's injured disk for less than $10,000. "I wouldn't hesitate to come back for another procedure," says Miller, who was recovering last...
...what read like a page from Gaddafi?s "mad dog" days, Saudi officials said they had arrested a senior Libyan intelligence officer in November 2003 who confessed to organizing a plot involving Saudi dissidents to fire a missile at then Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud's Mecca residence. Gaddafi told TIME that the allegations were "a fabricated case, an intentionally destructive thing...
...Arab world. "You can say there was an activity," says Seif al Islam, "but not to kill the crown prince. [The Libyan who supposedly organized the plot] is arriving there like James Bond?" After Abdullah became King in 2005, he effectively helped complete Gaddafi's rehabilitation by downplaying the Mecca case. In her statement Monday, Rice cited Libya?s continuing "excellent cooperation" in fighting international terrorism...