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...about twice as much as the typical Rwandan takes home. Christian Ruzigama, 41, returned to find his plantation in tatters. Now, with his profits, he has built a house and sends his children to school. Rwandan beans are jumping these days: this year's crop sold out, with Green Mountain coffee, Whole Foods and other companies eagerly buying. "Rwanda has gone from being completely unknown to being the hottest coffee origin in 2005," says Schilling, who runs pearl in Rwanda. pearl had to solve farmers' financing issues, too; many can't wait six to nine months between harvest and payment...
...ancient pharaohs longer than Mubarak has. "With our blood, our soul, we will sacrifice for you!" shouted the crowd. After the speech, a guy in the crowd pushed a paper in my face: It was a collection of poems extolling the leader's virtues. "O Mubarak! You are a mountain that does not shake with the wind!" read one of the lines...
...should be retired and sitting on a rocking chair somewhere in North Carolina," says Miller, who has trained and shown various breeds of dogs as a hobby for 30 years and owns eight--seven Papillons and a Bernese mountain dog. "But this is my dream and something I love doing, even if it's not typical for guys my age." Or, he might add, for guys, period...
...meetings and layovers, a posh 298-room Grand Hyatt Hotel should take care of your needs. It's not all business, however: to enliven the commodious space beneath the building's almost 25-m ceilings, the airport has added paintings, multimedia displays, mosaics and such large sculptures as Crystal Mountain, above. But to many, the real work of art is Terminal D itself...
...sets off a chain of thoughts about how people can disagree on what is beautiful, which leads to a review of the challenges that Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp made to the very idea of beauty. And that brings Kimmelman to reflect on the changing Western response to mountains--the Romans found them desolate, Martin Luther even thought they were part of God's punishment for man's fall--and how the dangers and hardship of a mountain trek, the very things that made mountains unappealing to earlier generations, were then reconceived by Immanuel Kant and by Romantic painters like...