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...Gold Museum, at Plaza Bolívar) and Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art, right off la Plaza de San Pedro) to the Cathedral, which offers an exhaustively comprehensive audio tour for $8. (I gave up after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there's the historic fort Castillo de San Felipe, built in 1657 and site of the crocodile...
...Marxist redistribution of wealth and the rights of indigenous peoples; it bases itself in the mountains and hills of Oaxaca and Guerrero states. On Wednesday evening, the EPR took responsibility for the less-than-impressive "artifacts." There might be more trouble. A well-connected Mexico City columnist, Raymundo Riva Palacio of the daily El Universo Grafico, told TIME that he believes the EPR is also holding two businessmen for ransom, asking $68 million for their release...
...attacks that the only way to handle new threats is to meet them head-on. There's room for disagreement about such a conclusion, but it deserves some respect. Still, as Europeans, Arabs and Americans at Davos started to "build on our divides" - as Spanish Foreign Minister Ana Palacio put it - one felt that there was a chance that the bitterness of 2003 might soon be no more than an unhappy memory. And that's written without the benefit of Taittinger...
...never visited. Today may be Independence Day, but this would be my independence summer. And while I have so far enjoyed every moment of my adventures here in Madrid—from making Spanish friends at the dorm where I live, to walking through El Prado and El Palacio Real, to staying out until 7 a.m. as everyone here seems to do. I have also realized, much to my surprise, that the journey is making me appreciate the American culture more than ever before...
...approved two years ago, in the wake of the 1999 Erika oil spill off northwestern France, single-hulled vessels are to be phased out by 2015. But oil companies and shippers still use the old vessels because they are cheaper to lease. Last week, E.U. transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio - a Spaniard - called on member states to quickly enact individual bans on single-hulled tankers in European waters. Efforts to clean up the benighted coast have been hindered by poor weather. The work has rapidly become an onshore mop-up exercise rather than an offshore recovery, partly...