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...group of 572 islands about 300 km south of Burma, are being offered to developers by the Indian government in an effort to emulate the success of the Maldives in the tourism industry. New Delhi has decided that private investment is the best and cheapest way to encourage lucrative resort development. Successful bidders will get a 39-year lease and following that, an undisclosed revenue-sharing arrangement...
...activities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has meant that until recently many of them were off-limits to foreign visitors. These days?though perhaps not for much longer?it's possible to stay on a deserted island in the Andamans without booking a bungalow through a luxury resort chain. We left for Port Blair, the capital, intending to spend a week on Smith Island. But by the time we made it up to Diglipur,?a 200-km cross-island excursion involving trucks, buses and boats?to catch the ferry, we found that Smith was one of the five...
...proposed new thinking substantially lowers the threshold for launching nuclear strikes - it even calls for a new generation of tactical "bunker-buster" nukes to destroy underground arsenals of biological weapons. Not exactly a doomsday weapon of last resort. And the idea of giving nuclear weapons a more everyday function in military thinking has certainly shocked both America's allies and its adversaries...
David Woodberry, the College’s housing officer, described the decision to remove faculty from the apartment building as a last resort to ease the current problem of overcrowding in undergraduate Houses...
...Glennie has hired Starwood Resorts to manage the hotels as Sheratons and revamped pricing for the resort's services. But on a recent weekday, only a couple of dozen vacationers could be seen in the Ocean Dome. What are Glennie's plans for it? He scratches his head: "Still working on that...