Word: nile
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...some respite: a bicycle ride through the Versailles gardens in France or a séjour at Thailand's Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle, where guests learn how to interact with elephants. Paris-based shoe designer Christian Louboutin likes to escape to a house he built on the Nile in Luxor, Egypt. New York City--based wunderkind designer Zac Posen recently ventured to Istanbul (a city currently experiencing a major luxury boom) to collaborate on a special clothing collection for the Turkish luxury-goods company Vakko...
That's the last thing the U.S. needs. As the nation's premier guardian of public health, the CDC is responsible for researching, tracking and counteracting newly emerging infectious diseases like West Nile and SARS. Doctors rely on it to develop unbiased recommendations on a wide range of medical issues from when to vaccinate children to how best to battle obesity. It also directs funds to individual state and local public agencies to shore up their own community health efforts...
...mandated by Congress for high-profile threats like bioterrorism and flu pandemics that has drained money from areas of public health that may actually be more pressing. Among the hardest-hit programs: AIDS prevention (down 19%), tuberculosis control (down 16%) and preventive-health block grants for outbreaks of West Nile disease and other unexpected events (down...
...right-and writing-hand. (His attacker fared worse: he was hung.) In his later years Mahfouz himself took on the aura of a fictional character: a humble creature of the caf?s whose life was deeply embedded in his ancient neighborhood, who wrote over coffee on the banks of the Nile-he favored the Ali Baba Caf?-and bantered with friends and fellow writers, often watched over by government bodyguards safeguarding the national treasure...
...fellow Arabs for doing business with Israelis even as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict still rages. But he insists that such deals will benefit the region by forming business bridges. "This is a very big step," says Sawiris, sipping an espresso in his 26th-floor office overlooking downtown Cairo, the Nile River and the Giza pyramids. "I am betting that peace will prevail...