Word: retreating
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...from the floor to the paintings, and that separate fusarium strains have now been identified in the various arms of the 235-m cave complex. Time was allowed to visit the cave because its keepers feel they finally have the outbreak under control. But to keep the fungus in retreat, a team of restorers comes into the cave every two weeks - dressed, as everyone who enters now must be, in hooded biohazard suits, booties and face masks - to remove filaments from the walls. Another team visits regularly to audit the cave's sanitary condition using laser imaging. "They tell...
...economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business. Which is how Marie-José de Speville and Karl-Heinz Horner moved from the Seychelles to Joffreville, a small mountain village 30 km from the northerly port of Diego Suarez. Joffreville was founded as a retreat for French officers in the early 20th century, and the couple Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with...
...Which is how Marie-Jos? de Speville and Karl-Heinz Horner moved from the Seychelles to Joffreville, a small mountain village 30 km from the northerly port of Diego Suarez. Joffreville was founded as a retreat for French officers in the early 20th century, and the couple have transformed Le Domaine de Fontenay, a rambling French colonial house with huge verandas, into a relaxed nine-bedroom hotel...
There is something to be said for the UC’s refusal to pay for the Din & Tonics’ spring tour to Bermuda, or for an AACF board retreat. Not funding these events, however, should have nothing to do with the groups’ constitutions. Instead, the UC should examine the audience of a particular event before making funding decisions. If a group’s membership is to benefit from a UC grant to the exclusion of other undergraduates, then the UC should think twice before funding it. But if an event...
...idea of Islamist groups entering democratic politics is inherently threatening to al-Qaeda, whose very premise is that local Muslim grievances can only ever be redressed once the "far enemy" (the U.S.) has been forced, through jihad under the banner of al-Qaeda, to retreat from the Muslim world. If a different, democratic option becomes available for local Islamist groups to pursue their goals, al-Qaeda and its message of the clash of civilizations becomes essentially irrelevant - which is exactly what Hamas appears to be implying it is to the Palestinians...