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...events. The whole shebang ends with a black-tie dinner in Jerash. Expect five-star accommodation every night, as well as traditional Arabic and Bedouin cuisine. The expedition enjoys the royal patronage of Prince Faisal bin al-Hussein, and his brother King Abdullah II and sister-in-law Queen Rania may just make an appearance, as they did at the 2003 inaugural race. A motoring holiday it may be, but participants should expect much, much more than just deserts...
...practitioners say the precise, rolling movements of belly dance combine aerobic exercise with stretching and strengthening. "Everybody learning the muscle-isolation exercises says they discovered muscles they never knew they had, because we don't just work the main muscle groups--we're engaging all the supporting ones," says Rania Androniki Bossonis, a Long Beach, Calif., instructor who, in keeping with the trend, has created a DVD series called Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss...
...Abdullah said he would now give the Hashemite vacancy his "sincere attention." Many assume that he always wanted his own bloodline to succeed him. Until he formally announces a new crown prince, 10-year-old Hussein, the eldest of Abdullah's three children with Queen Rania, will be the Kingdom's de facto...
...QUEEN RANIA by Patty Stonesifer...
...Queen Rania, the wife of Jordan's King Abdullah, has described the challenge to her country as trying to reconcile tradition with modernity. In Jordan, the issues she champions to bridge this gap include computer skills for schoolchildren, micro loans for women to start their own businesses, ending child abuse and trafficking and pushing for harsher penalties for honor killings. But I know her through her efforts on a larger world stage. Along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Rania is working to spread the modern gospel of childhood vaccination. As she noted that evening...