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What does a hotel in the middle of the urban jungle do when it wants to provide a resort experience for its guests? It builds an oasis several stories in the air. And Hong Kong's Grand Hyatt has done so, spending a cool $10 million in the process...
...serialize a Wodehouse novel. At the dawn of the Depression, he had a Mayfair mansion and a Rolls Royce with his crest on the door. Money led to his downfall. Tax authorities in the U.S. and Britain began to pursue those royalties, so Wodehouse fled to the northern French resort of Le Touquet. There in May 1940 he was seized by the German army. For 13 months he was held in a succession of camps, where fellow inmates report that he helped keep morale high and shared his worldly goods with them. Shortly before being freed, he agreed to give...
...Apocalypse Now was filmed at this little seaside town. Possibly as a result, it is now home to a small but fanatical community of around 50 surfers. Recommended is Sabang beach with its easy-to-manage left and right wave breaks. Inquire at the beachside Bay's Inn resort, tel: (63-42) 410 0643, about lessons and board rental. October to February see surfing conditions at their prime...
...denial about the cause. Two aircraft left Tuesday night from the same Moscow airport, and dropped off the radar screens within 60 seconds of each other. At 10.53 p.m. traffic controllers lost contact with Flight 1047, a Siberia Airlines flight from Moscow to the Black Sea resort of Sochi. A minute later, Volga-Aviaexpress Flight 1303 from Moscow to Volgograd disappeared. The wreckage of the planes was quickly found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature of the catastrophes was only the first clue that this was terrorism. Villagers in the Tula region...
...Donana National Park in Southern Spain, scientists are attempting one of conservation's most difficult feats: breeding predators in captivity to reintroduce them to the wild. Reintroduction is generally regarded as a last resort by biologists, but in the case of the Iberian lynx, there's no choice. Severely overhunted for decades, the species has been declining rapidly since the 1950s, when the rabbit population it dines on was decimated by disease. Today the lynx is the world's most endangered cat, down to fewer than 200 in Spain and probably extinct in Portugal. "There are only two reproducing populations...