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...like the Tuscan hillsides and an engine throb that blends with the rustle of cypress trees. So when slowing to a gentle stop near a 10th century cobblestone abbey, I couldn't help but feel like my four wheels were actually improving the scenery. Walter Laimer and Gert Pichler, northern Italian buddies who once led Tuscan bike tours, offer four-day, all-inclusive guided Alfa tours that start around ?2,000. "With cars today you're shut off from the surrounding environment," says Laimer. "You lose the real sense of driving." Their German-based company, Nostalgic, simply drops...
...sizeable presence in the Middle East, the Kurds number roughly 20 million and reside in a broad swathe from Southeastern Turkey, to Northern Iraq and Western Iran. The largest concentration of Kurds in the region—around 10 million—resides in Turkey and comprises upwards of 20 percent of the country’s population...
...encourage firms to locate operations at home. One beneficiary is the media company Vivendi Universal, which recently won a tax break it estimates to be worth €3.8 billion over the next six or seven years. In exchange, it agreed to create two new call centers - in the northern town of Douai and Belfort in the east. The government isn't saying how many jobs it hopes to keep, but Sarkozy tells TIME that "I'm paid to find a solution." A TIME poll finds that nearly 8 out of 10 French citizens agree with his efforts. Yet experts question...
...Israel continued a major military operation inside the Gaza Strip, intended, it said, to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets at villages in southern Israel. More than 50 Palestinians and five Israelis died in some of the bloodiest fighting of the four-year-old intifadeh, as Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and troops sought to create a buffer zone along the border. Palestinian militant group Hamas said it would continue its rocket attacks. Oil on Troubled Waters NIGERIA A truce between the government and Niger Delta rebels calmed fears of regional unrest that had helped send oil prices spiraling...
...does not stay true for the current issue of "True Travel Tales." Here Justin Hall dedicates the entire issue to just one, slightly doctored, "true" narrative, with noticeably improved results. Sub-titled "La Rubia Loca," issue three concerns Sarah, who decides to sign up for a camping tour of northern Mexico to get away from some unnamed misery at home. Early in the trip she bonds with another woman, Helena, who seems as troubled as she. But as the trip progresses, Helena becomes increasingly manic and psychotic, forcing Sarah and the tour guides to figure out how to manage Helena...