Word: palmes
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Kenya's second-largest city, however, is hardly a ghost town. Locals bustle about pastel-colored shops crammed along sandy avenues, as brightly painted taxis cruised under palm trees in the sticky heat. But foreign faces are nowhere to be seen. On the northern tip of another of Mombasa's deserted beaches, Masai tribesmen with glittering bracelets draped on their arms unsuccessfully tried to hawk their jewelry to the rare visitor passing by. Curio sellers bemoaned their lack of customers. "We regret that we ever had elections," says Joseph Mutie, stretched out under racks of kaleidoscopic cloths billowing...
HALLE BERRY, on being pregnant, while accepting the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival...
...This is the first red carpet that I've really walked down where I didn't have to think about holding in my stomach.' HALLE BERRY, on being pregnant, while accepting the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival...
...student at St. Andrews ever summoned the courage to make the "royal run" at William for fear his guards were armed, I once resolved to shake the prince's hand. Slowly, and with both hands clearly visible, I approached His Royal Highness to introduce myself. He accepted my outstretched palm without squeezing, and dismissed my advance with a short pleasantry. With such an altitudinous reception, who needs security officers...
...villa in the sun is many people's dream. Almost too many - it's frustratingly un-exclusive these days. To stand out, you want one designed by Norman Foster, nestled in a palm-tree jungle and within a short walk of a white-sand Indian Ocean beach, an 18 hole golf course and a five-star hotel with a spa and top-class restaurants. You want, in other words, Corniche Bay, a development of 115 such villas and a 75-bedroom hotel on the secluded southwestern tip of Mauritius. It's one of a few high-end resorts...