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...Germany - which sent nearly 100,000 visitors to the city in 2003 - as well as Australia, Japan and South Korea. International air service to Vegas' McCarran Airport has more than doubled in the past year. Last week, Britain's bmi airline announced that, from Oct. 31, it will fly nonstop three times a week to Vegas from Manchester, England. So it's no surprise that MGM Mirage announced last week that its second-quarter profits nearly doubled from 2003. According to Joseph Greff of Fulcrum Global Partners, room rates in top hotels on the Strip are up 40% from...
...that's not just for tourists. Sure, the Essential Field Guide to Afghanistan (Crosslines Publications; 544 pages) can point you to the best pizza in Kabul. It also describes the blue glassware sold in the bazaars of Herat and tells you where to find a bed in Kandahar or nonstop Hindi movies in Mazar-e-Sharif. But the bulk of Edward Girardet and Jonathan Walter's guide relates to more life-and-death matters, and is an essential traveling companion for humanitarian-aid workers, diplomats, peacekeeping troops, journalists and others bound for Afghanistan. Although populated by plenty of hospitable folk...
Bank robbing wasn't an exact science in 1933, and watching the bad guys figure it out as they go along makes for nonstop comedy. They flood their engines, shoot themselves, crash their cars and steal sacks of mail instead of money. Once, John Dillinger discovered that his wheelman had parallel parked the getaway car; he had to make an Austin Powers--style multipoint turn before he could peel out. The G-men weren't much better. The FBI was staffed by bumbling college kids and led by a raccoon-eyed, sexually ambiguous desk jockey named J. Edgar Hoover...
...Jefferson were alive today, he would be shocked by the monstrous complexity and expense of modern politics. When he first ran for President in 1800, the Electoral College and the House of Representatives decided elections, by and large, and there was little campaigning in the current sense. The nonstop advertising, showy conventions and hectic travel would have repelled the shy Virginian, who found public speaking burdensome. "In [the Founding Fathers'] minds, the person who was ambitious and wanted high office was the one person you should never trust with it," says Yale historian Joanne Freeman, author of Affairs of Honor...
...hack up the catch and lug it miles back to camp. Climbing trees to find nuts and fruit was hard work too. In essence, early humans ate what amounted to the best of the high-protein Atkins diet and the low-fat Ornish diet, and worked out almost nonstop. To get a sense of their endurance, cardiovascular fitness, musculature and body fat, say evolutionary anthropologists, look at a modern marathon runner...