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Ecotourists have turned their gaze on Madagascar and its bounty of lemurs - tourism was up by 21% between 2004 and 2005 - but outside the capital, Antananarivo, there are few decent hotels. Local subsistence farmers don't care much, and thus President Marc Ravalomanana, who is determined to pull the world's fourth largest island out of its economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business. Which is how Marie-José de Speville and Karl-Heinz Horner moved from the Seychelles to Joffreville, a small mountain village 30 km from the northerly port of Diego Suarez. Joffreville...
...sort of move in the final 500 meters that it has mastered in a dual season marred by inconsistency. The Crimson took up the rating and found the rhythm it had so lacked in the first three minutes, tearing down the course in the furious final sprint to pull within seats of the Bulldogs and the Tigers.The three crews crossed the line in close succession, as Yale (5:46.2) eked out a three-seat win over Princeton (5:47.2), and the Crimson (5:47.3) followed just 0.1 seconds behind the Tigers.Over 500 meters, Harvard jumped both Princeton and Yale...
...were complete and the game began, Cornell jumped out to an early lead. Only 26 seconds into the period, sophomore Charlotte Schmidlapp scored off an assist from fellow sophomore Caroline Simmons. Martin evened up the game at one apiece, but the Big Red assembled one of many rallies to pull away from Harvard. The Cornell defense stifled the Harvard offense, allowing only 26 shots in the entire game while firing off 34 of its own. At halftime, the scoreboard stood at 6-2. Going into the second half, the Big Red continued where it left off, scoring 35 seconds into...
Ecotourists have turned their gaze on Madagascar and its bounty of lemurs?tourism was up by 21% between 2004 and 2005?but outside the capital, Antananarivo, there are few decent hotels. Local subsistence farmers don't care much, and thus President Marc Ravalomanana, who is determined to pull the world's fourth largest island out of its economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business...
Four days after Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 came under scrutiny for possible plagiarism in her novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” her publisher yesterday asked stores across the country to pull the book from their shelves...