Word: resorting
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Middle East Nuts and Bolts Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met in the Egyptian resort town of Taba to begin discussing details of the transition to Palestinian self-rule, beginning in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. Among the issues: security arrangements, the size of the Palestinian-controlled zone around Jericho, the fate of thousands of Palestinians imprisoned or deported by Israel and control of water sources...
...Vietnamese would declare another war tomorrow and immediately declare themselves the losers if they could just get the Americans back.'' Venture capitalists were all over the place, maneuvering for the lifting of the embargo. A fellow from Wyoming, name of Irl, was trying to put together a golf resort here on China Beach, soon as the green light came from Washington. ''We want to put in hospitals as part of the development,'' Irl said. ''You don't want your tourists getting sick and dying.'' Irl said -- as does just about everybody one runs across in Vietnam -- that the MIA issue...
...What would American artists in the '40s, from Arshile Gorky onward, have done without him? -- and yet it never lost its sense of wonder at the world or ceased to anchor itself in sharp little signs and pictographs denoting the specific. Its utter conviction is furthered by Miro's resort to painstaking, almost old-masterly construction and technical effects: in the mid-'30s he produced a series of tiny oils on copper, such as Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, 1935, in which grotesqueness and scatology collide with an enameler's decorative sense. The climax...
...Political Gaming Your story on presidential candidates' gambling habits was the most illuminating article on this election yet [July 14]. It's comforting to know that when prices are on the rise and low-income Americans resort to working two jobs to survive, Senator John McCain has the good sense to gamble with only "a few thousand dollars at a time" when playing games of chance. Thank you for reminding us that the sharp divide between the haves and have-nots is alive and well in America. Austin Hudson, Holladay, Utah...
...that bay, back in 2002, that John Darwin's canoe was found adrift close to his hometown of Seaton Carew, a resort once highly favored by the Victorians. A year later, when his body didn't turn up, he was officially declared dead. But in December 2007, Darwin walked into a central London police station claiming to be suffering from amnesia. Just days after his miraculous return, the errant canoeist was arrested on suspicion of fraud. And it turned out that in the meantime his wife had sold the family home, moved to Panama, and possessed assets totaling some...