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If Tarzan and Jane had honeymooned in South Africa, the Tsitsikamma Forest - or "place of much water" - would have been their favorite bit (after his leopard-print underwear, of course). Stretching for 80km along the Garden Route coastline is a verdant carpet of fynbos (Afrikaans for fine bush) and towering...
There's nothing Russians love more than a good scrap. After the writer Sergei Aksakov bought the Abramtsevo country estate in 1843, it soon grew into an informal club for Slavophiles - intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known...
Valentino, fashion designer: I would admire the sunset from the neoclassical restaurant Casina Valadier on Pincio hill before going for a drink in nearby Piazza del Popolo, at the elegant Hotel de Russie, pictured. Then, after a dinner of Roman fare and seasonal produce at Al Moro I would stroll...
Dancing made stars in the '30s: Temple, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Eleanor Powell. As for the toe-tapping extras, the foot soldiers of Hollywood musicals, Busby Berkeley put them to work by the hundreds, using them to create giant geometric shapes that were both military and erotic. From a...
NOT NECESSARILY. UNDERPINNING THE current air of crisis is uncertainty about how soon Iran could manage bomb production. Western intelligence on the intentions and capabilities of nuclear aspirants is notoriously unreliable. Thus far, the IAEA says, Iran has the knowledge but not the capacity to make weapons. Some experts say...