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Last year players flew off to places like Kruger National Park, home to Leopard Creek, one of South Africa's top courses. There they played amid giraffes and rhinos, with colorful birds overhead. The Middle East is another hot spot for luxury locales, especially in places like Dubai. "They realize their oil is going to run out and they need something to fall back on," says Hogan, "So they've gotten serious about building golf resorts...
...Raja, Safi, Asif and Hasif are talking about their friend Kaki, another local boy, born nine miles from their Beeston neighborhood. "He was the best lad," says one, "everybody liked him." "He was gentle" and "he got on with everybody." Ameer, a younger boy in a nearby park, could "definitely not" believe it was Kaki. The evidence suggests otherwise. From CCTV images captured at rail stations in Luton and London and personal documents found at the scenes of the London explosions, police have identified the amiable 22-year-old his contemporaries called Kaki as Shehzed Tanweer, who traveled from Leeds...
...spirit of self-examination is to really take root among British Muslims, what happens in the arenas of high politics is less important than the everyday chats in mosques and youth clubs. "That atrocity broke our hearts," says Mohammed Kozbar, spokesman for the North London Central Mosque in Finsbury Park. "I've been shocked and surprised by the news that these young people are British Muslims." Until early 2003, the radical Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam at Finsbury Park, reeling in enthusiastic young followers with his fiery sermons. Now Abu Hamza is awaiting trial...
...Winter Park...
Never mind that I had known nothing but the smooth asphalt of the suburbs for 18 years; this trailer park off of a New Orleans highway felt foreign for so many other reasons. There was the white gravel sabotaging my high heels, the barefoot kids flinging tiny firecrackers into the sky, the bowlegged mutt slurping Wonderbread and canned beans, and the Vietnamese men lazing on a porch...