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...spirited traveler, the safari itself is the key. Our adventure began after our twin-prop touched down at a remote bush landing strip at Kimanjo, deep in Laikipia. From there it was a Land Cruiser ride to our first camp, set beneath acacia and a vast sycamore fig. Here we met the troop in its full glory: 19 camels and 15 Samburu, Turkana and Masai tribesmen. The sense of joining an ancient caravan heading into the bush was heightened by the fact that there would be almost no contact with the outside world for several days...
...after a run on its deposits in 2007, slumped to a pretax loss of $1.2 billion in the first half, far worse than the $984 million shortfall recorded in the same period of 2008. A stellar six months at the investment-banking unit of London-based HSBC, meanwhile, helped prop up its falling profits. Income across Europe's largest bank fell to $5 billion, half the level hit a year earlier. At Barclays, the U.K.'s second-biggest lender, profits rose 8%, to $5 billion. (See pictures of London's financial crisis...
...every business can be special," says J.D. Foster, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington. "When you start identifying federal programs to prop up every conceivable industry that's complaining of economic hard times, you end up with a situation in which everybody is supporting everybody- which means nobody is being supported...
...Mormons and Prop 8 I'm grateful to David Van Biema for a refreshingly thoughtful, balanced article on Mormons [June 22]. What's been alarming about the Prop 8 debate is how few people accusing Mormons of intolerance have been willing to look at why church members feel so strongly. Greg Palmer, Rexburg, Idaho...
...summer, the nation's department stores are still cold. According to the retail-sales statistics released by the Commerce Department on July 14, June department store sales dipped 1.3% compared to sales in May of this year, and were down 9.4% compared with June of 2008. So to prop up sales before the back-to-school season, one major player is asking Santa, of all people, for some help...