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...London's Imperial War Museum. But for those who want to literally follow in his footsteps, here are a few places to go: JORDAN Lawrence fought key battles of the Arab Revolt in 1917 in the desert landscape of Wadi Rum, 50 km northeast of the Red Sea port of Aqaba. Tourists can go on multiday camel or jeep safaris and spend the night in Bedouin tents on the sands of the parched Wadi, below imposing sandstone mountains. Captain's Desert Camp (tel: [962-3] 201 6905; www.captains-jo.com) offers desert tent accommodation, while Bedouin Roads...
...JORDAN Lawrence fought key battles of the Arab Revolt in 1917 in the desert landscape of Wadi Rum, 50 km northeast of the Red Sea port of Aqaba. Tourists can go on multiday camel or jeep safaris and spend the night in Bedouin tents on the sands of the parched Wadi, below imposing sandstone mountains. Captain's Desert Camp (tel: [962-3] 201 6905; www.captains-jo.com) offers desert tent accommodation, while Bedouin Roads (tel: [962] 795 899 723); www.bedouinroads.com) has local guides for mountain hikes...
...have been good at, successive generations of Hong Kong people have been terrific at filling in their harbor. The fashionistas' haunts in Causeway Bay, the new 88-story IFC II building (sixth tallest in the world) in Central, Suzie Wong's bars in Wanchai, the world's busiest container port, the runway at the old Kai Tak airport that used to have white-knuckled flyers fingering their rosaries?they were all built on reclaimed land. One hundred and sixty years of hauling landfill from mountainsides and construction dumps and shoveling it into the water has left Hong Kong with...
...While Hong Kong's government was milking the harbor as a tax cow, it missed what was happening elsewhere in the world. As shipping moved from downtown wharves to purpose-built container ports, old cities discovered that their weedy waterfronts could be reworked into the sort of environments that would attract?and retain?both tourist dollars and the creative minds that give a place fizz. From Boston to Bilbao, from Singapore to Sydney?even, for heaven's sake, in Liverpool, the ultimate rusted-up port?city planners have remade harbors into lively, people-friendly places full of restaurants, design studios...
...submarine--became one of the most famous lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze-covered tea strainer as an ether mask, he removed the appendix in 21/2 hours, sending Rector back to work within two weeks...