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...better times, Christos Kortzidis never skips a meal. Yet, for most of this month, the mild-mannered mayor of Hellenikon, a seaside suburb south of Athens, has sat squat in a rusting folding chair in his office, surviving on water and fruit juice. "Starvation," he says, "was my last resort in order to pressure authorities to save the [Greek] beaches from further exploitation." Elected on an independent ticket last October, Kortizidis has lobbied for years against the privatization of Athens' prime beachfront, urging the centre-right government to take on the nightclub owners and entrepreneurs whose leisure venues along...
Losing weight is an uphill battle - especially for the morbidly obese. Diet and exercise often fail. Drugs are not very effective. And in the end, many people suffer for years only to be left with one last and very expensive resort: surgery. That was certainly the case with Shawn Tarman, a 42-year-old woman from Willow Grove, Penn., who says she'd tried absolutely everything to lose weight. She finally resorted to gastric bypass surgery, a procedure that shrinks the stomach, and lost over 100 pounds...
...hotel and homes in Dubailand, the region's largest tourism and leisure facility, while Greg Norman is teaming with Sergio Garcia and influential designer Pete Dye to create Dubai's first links-style course. Jack Nicklaus, a pioneer among the player-designers, has announced a $1.35 billion golf-resort venture in the Cape Verde Islands, off the West African coast. Gary Player Design built the first public course in China on an island off Hong Kong and just opened another course outside Shanghai. "Seventy percent of the people who live on these courses in Asia don't play golf," says...
...that Syria needed to "get Hizballah to stop doing this s___," as well as Cheney's hearty invitation to Senator Patrick Leahy, "Go f___ yourself." (The court could have cited Bush's remark, later reported by TIME, from March 2002 when war in Iraq was allegedly still a last resort: "F___ Saddam. We're taking...
...Inside the fence, it turns out, some were asking the same question. In the whitewashed buildings of the elaborately restored Baltic resort of Heiligendamm, important things seemed to be happening. Russia's Vladimir Putin and President Bush strolled out past the massive beds of hydrangeas to say they had held good discussions on missile defense in Europe, with Putin provocatively proposing the use of Russian installations as a substitute for the ones the U.S. plans to place in Poland and the Czech Republic. And the G-8 leaders agreed on a putative program for addressing climate change...