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...abandoned when Manser's campaign office, the Basel-based Bruno Manser Foundation, received a call from the Malaysian embassy warning him not to try. "Somehow they already knew exactly what we were planning," says Christinet, who now works as a mountain guide in the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt...
...flights and cheaper costs on the ground meant any Westerner could play discoverer, a modern-day Marco Polo, Magellan or even Zheng He. By living with "the people"?as opposed to living with fellow foreigners in five-star hotels?the backpacker would witness and experience true culture, not some resort-show pastiche. By staying in cheap hostels and eating at small family-run restaurants, he would give his money to those who needed it most. And by maintaining an environmental vigilance, he'd simply tread more softly than the package tourist. The backpacker guidebooks described the perfect...
Chinese may go to New Jersey to wash dishes or New England to earn a degree, but they come to Africa to make fortunes and garner respect. Zheng He did as well. It was from Malindi, now a sleepy resort town a two-hour drive up the coast from Mombasa, that he received his most precious tributes: a qilin (or unicorn), a celestial stag and a celestial horse - now identified more prosaically as a giraffe, an oryx and a zebra. Since moving sight unseen to Mombasa in 1992, Li and his family have also taken Africa's natural riches - especially...
...promised to allow Dolores, then 78, to live independently while it provided the extra support she needed. Staff members trained in memory impairment would help her eat and bathe; a "life-enrichment coordinator" would keep her active. The facility was stunning: from the outside, it looked more like a resort than a hospital. Inside, residents could gather in the "town square," with its beauty salon and ice-cream parlor, or relax by the fire in the living room, or skim through stacks of old National Geographic magazines. "You walk in and say, 'This is a place I would love...
...During a dinner at the Suan Bua resort on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thaksin sits surrounded by his Cabinet ministers who are taking a break from a two-day retreat where he is formally articulating his policies. Despite his tub-thumping election campaign he has not actually said what he stands for?aside from his vague blandishments about technology and the future. In his first few months in office he sent conflicting foreign-policy signals, telegraphing an isolationist message at an April conference in Bangkok where he said Thailand would reduce dependence on exports and look inward to solve...