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Across the road from the castle is the championship-caliber Powerscourt Golf Club, where you can play for $90 to $100 (reservations required; e-mail golfclub@powerscourt.ie). With its vales of 200-year-old oak trees and views of Great Sugar Loaf Mountain and Dublin Bay, the course fits nicely with its stately clubhouse and the neighboring castle. For longer stays, the golf club rents apartments, and it can accommodate business groups. Both castle and club have restaurants, but it's worth the short walk to the winsome village of Enniskerry for sandwiches and a pint at the Glenwood...
...concluded, but the mess in Room S-407 showed that the President will have to work hard to convince Congress and the American public that a war with Iraq is in the national interest. Congress normally gives a popular Commander in Chief what he wants, but Bush has a mountain of skepticism to overcome. As Senate majority leader Tom Daschle put it, "I'm more concerned about getting this done right than getting it done quickly...
...some of the walls, encased turkey feathers and dried corn husks in glass for others. The lobby is delineated by trees made of cedar, old copper joints and beads, and is punctuated by a 55-ft. indoor waterfall. Gamblers try their luck in the glow of Wombi Rock, a mountain made of onyx and alabaster fused onto glass, which houses a restaurant, bar and lounge. And did we mention the world's biggest working planetarium dome...
Sommer Hollingsworth, president of the Nevada Development Authority, which works to attract employers to southern Nevada, observed that of about 350 firms his group sought to recruit over the past year, "we've never had anyone ask about the nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, but client after client wants to know what we are going to do about the doctor situation. The quality of the medical system plays a big role for companies choosing to relocate...
...glaring up with three vast, unblinking eyes. The colors looked so unnatural that at first I thought I was peering into tailing ponds filled with toxic sludge from a large mining operation. Then the pilot informed us we were looking at the crater lakes of Keli Mutu, or "burning mountain." One was dirty brown, one jet black and the other a brilliant milky turquoise...