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...thinks that the more Muslim youth participate in the democratic process, the more they will display allegiance to Britain. The association has tried to mobilize Muslims to vote, an aim shared by Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding. Doyle thinks Muslims need to pool their resources - locally, regionally and nationally - to increase their clout. The Muslim community, he says, "is beginning to realize that they have a real part in the solution." Yet Muslim voter participation remains low, and there are only four Muslim Members of Parliament out of a total of 659 M.P.s. Prime Minister...
...hotels. The latest is the Kasbah Tamadot (virgin.com/kasbah), an 18-room property 50 minutes south of Marrakech, in the foothills of Morocco's High Atlas mountains. Branson, who bought it in 1998, spent years renovating the building. Today, its Moorish doors open onto mosaic-covered courtyards, azure reflecting pools, and terraced gardens, which cascade down to an infinity pool that's ringed by rosebushes, fruit trees and cactus plants. Rooms and suites are multistoried affairs stocked with antiques, and all feature spacious balconies with sweeping mountain views. An indoor pool, a spa, a rooftop restaurant (serving French-African cuisine...
...stock-market boom and a thriving economy, several Icelandic companies are also on the acquisition trail overseas, including financial institution Kaupthing and food company Bakkavör. It's not just the springs that are hot in Iceland, it seems. - By Peter Gumbel Stirring Up The Risk Pool Triathletes are usually known for taking a risk or two. After all, swimming, biking and running - with hardly a breather in between - doesn't come without potential danger. So why will more than 100 of these risk takers in next week's VisitScotland Adventure-Tri be insured for $1.75 million? Because swimmers...
...unsympathetic intellects” are initially terrifying but, in many ways, seem quite stupid. It is never made clear why a species that traveled millions of miles to reach earth would decide to drink water from a festering pool in an abandoned basement—or even why it would travel to earth in the first place. Nor is it made entirely clear why, after the aliens spent the first half of the movie vaporizing people into ashes, they suddenly decide to harvest humans as fertilizer for crops that resemble dried viscera...
...Massachusetts Firefighting Academy, where she spent 11 grueling weeks in the classroom and in intense training. She didn’t know whether she would make it, watching as others tripped up along the way—like one who, unable to overcome his fear of water for a pool test, was sent packing...