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...chemotherapy and radiation and a whole host of side effects. I have been free of cancer for nearly 20 years, and with the medication I'm on, I stand a good chance of a normal life. Survivor Karen Dyer, featured in your report, is a wonderful role model for all young people. She has shown that one can survive cancer and live a normal life thereafter. The only difference between Karen's story and my own? Mine takes place in South Africa. Timothy Wallace, Ermelo, South Africa...
...TIME: Your image as a role model for African leaders has been tarnished by the perception that your government is not concerned with human rights. Meles: As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have over a number of years learned to be a little less direct. And I have certain misgivings about these human rights organizations and their activities. I see fundamental structural flaws in the way they operate. The way it's done...
Exasperated by the delays, Kurdistan's powerful regional government--which had agreed to the law last February--simply passed its own legislation. It offers model contracts for oil firms, and the regional government's website has details of Kurdistan's oil blocks. Kurdistan has already signed five contracts and begun production...
...Cacique, an $800 million, eco-friendly resort planned for Costa Rica's northwest coast. To stand out in the crowded luxury field, a boast about sheets with a thread count of 1,200 isn't enough. So Case and other hotel developers are trying to create a new model for luxury. Unlike the typical, walled-off resort, Cacique's hotel rooms and vacation homes will surround an authentic village where locals will both live and work. Tanzania's Singita Grumeti Sasakwa Hill Lodge reimagines African safaris by housing guests in a $3,000-a-night colonial-style English manor after...
...amount of freedom citizens have to voice opinions and select a government, the U.S. tops out at 35th place--a drop from its rank of 22nd in 2005 because of a decreased trust in public officials and restrictions on the freedom of the press. "The U.S. is not a model," says Daniel Kaufmann, a lead author of the report, but it is far from the doghouse...