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...Earthwatch and other industry veterans well know, make-a-difference sojourns often attract repeat customers. "It's lifechanging," says Barbara Jenkel, 68, of her 2005 caravan with Relief Riders International through India's Rajasthan Desert. On the 15-day trip, which included a night in a 257-year-old fort, the retiree from Chappaqua, N.Y., helped set up medical camps and distribute books to schools and goats to poor families. She found the experience so inspiring that she's going back in October. Volunteer vacations also channel tourism dollars to places that aren't usually featured in glossy travel brochures...
...Other tour operators stress that voluntourism really does have lasting impact because, despite rapid turnover among individual volunteers, trip organizers develop long-term relationships with community partners. On one of her first group trips to El Salvador in 2001, explains Nancy Rivard, who founded Airline Ambassadors to expand on relief work she began as a flight attendant for American Airlines, volunteers helped 150 families acquire land and rebuild homes devastated by earthquakes. They were scheduled to open a vocational-training center near those homes during the last week of July and stock it with sewing machines carried to hilly...
...authorities to kick Rasmussen off their national team headed for the 2008 Olympics. Danish officials say Rasmussen failed to provide required information as he trained for the current Tour - details on his whereabouts designed to allow anti-doping experts to perform surprise tests. Rasmussen's departure was greeted with relief by Tour directors, who fretted about how his probable overall victory would reflect on the scandal-rocked Tour's reputation. For much of the race, Rasmussen had been the target of surprisingly blunt accusations by fellow riders and the French media that the Dane's uncharacteristically mighty performances could...
Sofia was the scene of great joy and much relief Tuesday, after six Bulgarian medics detained in Libya for the past eight years on murder charges touched down to freedom following a French-brokered agreement for their release. But while attention was largely focused on the arrival of the medical workers and their reunion with families, eyes also turned towards Paris, where French president Nicolas Sarkozy was being credited with the biggest diplomatic coup yet in his already highly accomplished two months in office. Only Sarkozy, it seemed, sought to downplay his own role in the breakthrough to focus...
...While freedom for the Bulgarians and Palestinian will bring a universal sigh of relief, some hackles have been raised in Brussels over what some consider Sarkozy's grandstanding in the affair. EU officials have recently groused at seeing their discreet, prolonged efforts to secure the Bulgarians' release snatched up by the new French President. Others have admitted shock at seeing Sarkozy's wife used down as a proxy to both negotiate and act as a photo-op stand-in with the prisoners following their release. French officials deny such cynicism is involved, and say all anyone wants is freedom...