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Saturday's open-air market in Kununurra is fun and friendly. Just after breakfast, locals have come to grab melons and fresh greens from the surrounding well-irrigated farms. Tourists are marveling at the inventive lotions, potions and sauces stall holders have concocted from the remote region's boab trees. Also for sale are indigenous art and craft and the handiwork of local women. A handful of people have gathered around a young woman displaying a laundry gizmo. Slim, tanned and cheerful, Sheree O'Brien, 34, is spruiking The Amazing Handiwash, a plastic agitator that cleans dirty clothes...
...century, remaining so until its springs were eclipsed by the fad for sea bathing in the 1800s. Today, the city's fame principally rests on its exquisite Georgian architecture, which has been stylishly incorporated into the new spa alongside modern additions by architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. Highlights include an open-air rooftop pool overlooking the town center and glass steam rooms. Taking in these elegant surroundings, it's hard to believe that the project was plagued by problems since construction began in 2000 (a long-running feud between city authorities and contractors saw costs double to around $64 million...
...Prior to the latest incursion, Gaza was still surrounded by the Israeli army, with checkpoints at exits, its coast patrolled and its airspace controlled. It is actually a large open-air prison. Israel's continued occupation of territory beyond its legitimate borders is the problem. Gilwee Walker Palo Alto, California...
...century, remaining so until its springs were eclipsed by the fad for sea bathing in the 1800s. Today, the city's fame principally rests on its exquisite Georgian architecture, which has been stylishly incorporated into the new spa alongside modern additions by architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. Highlights include an open-air rooftop pool overlooking the town center and glass steam rooms. Taking in these elegant surroundings, it's hard to believe that the project was plagued by problems since construction began in 2000 (a long-running feud between city authorities and contractors saw costs double to around $64 million...
...boasts in such abundance. Armed only with our Veritas watermarks, we found that institutions conceived by long-buried French kings were delighted to have us around. Admittedly, Harvard-sponsored cultural tourism is not for everyone. Our letters were singularly unsuccessful in getting us first-row places at the large open-air concerts held in Paris over the summer. Nightclubs and first-class travel compartments are similarly indifferent to the enthusiastic words of the Center for European Studies’ executive director. More importantly, to participate in this Harvardian opportunity, one must be able to take pleasure in the gloriously pompous...