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...city is different from the rest of the country in other ways, not least in its temperate climate, which offers respite from the heat of the surrounding Namib Desert. And as Namibia has grown in stature as a safari destination, so Swakopmund, relatively undeveloped and off the beaten track until the 1970s, has quietly blossomed. Hollywood has even made an appearance: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh was born there in 2006, and the city is a location for the current U.S. remake of the 1960s British television series The Prisoner. Here are five of its main attractions...
...walking around? British inventor Trevor Baylis has. Baylis, whose previous brainstorms include a clockwork radio, has announced the founding of a company to manufacture shoes that produce power using the natural motion of walking. This summer Baylis plans to test his shoes in Africa in a walk across the Namib Desert during which he'll place a phone call to PM Tony Blair (who else?) using only power made by the footwear. That's one small step...
BLUE PLANET. Astronaut's-eye views of earth, filmed during five space-shuttle missions. From the wind-sculpted dunes of the Namib Desert to smogbound Los Angeles, the images underscore the urgency of saving the environment. Showing at more than two dozen science museums in the U.S. and Canada through the summer...
...leaflets or press statements making such an equation. But while South African troops drive through townships at random with guns blazing, and while entire families are transported to bantustans where there is no rain, jobs, or health care, and while the Bushmen are dying in forced migration from the Namib Desert, then perhaps recognizing the genocideal aspect of apartheid and comparing it to German fascism is not so unreasonable...
TUCSIN -- The University Center for Studiesin Namibia, Namibia: Internship--the internwould prepare a research and development proposalon the cultivation and domestication of amulti-purpose plant endemic to the Namib Desert.Candidate should be a graduate student with abackground in the biological sciences...