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...home makes on the desert. "Given the rate the desert is being gobbled up by people like us, my feeling is we need to put some back," she says, standing on her porch and pointing to the plants in her yard. "I put in native plants only--ocotillo, Arizona rosewood, desert willow, prickly pear. I start them with a little water, but soon they will survive on their...
...convening a national debate about the proper place of God in public life, discretion is no virtue. Judge Moore has been exuberantly defying court orders regarding the Ten Commandments since his early days as a judge in Etowah County when he defended his right to display a homemade rosewood plaque in his courtroom. That crusade helped him get elected as Alabama's chief justice in 2000, so it should have surprised no one when he wheeled the 5,280-lb. monument of the Commandments into the courthouse rotunda in a midnight ceremony and then forced a showdown by refusing...
...long displayed a reverence--or obsession, depending on your point of view--for the Ten Commandments. The Scripture has been a good calling card for Moore, gaining him notoriety far beyond the realm of circuit-court judges after he first decorated his courtroom in 1995 with a hand-carved rosewood plaque bearing God's laws. He prevailed over civil libertarians who sued for its removal, and rode his fame even further in 2000, when he was elected chief justice of Alabama's supreme court on the slogan "Roy Moore: Still the Ten Commandments Judge." But while he earned folk-hero...
...travel habits during this period of time; they chose closer and less-expensive destinations." Philip Yong, a leading tour operator in Sarawak, says, "If it weren't for domestic travelers from peninsular Malaysia, [hotel occupancy] would be in single digits here." Gert Kopera, general manager of the Dharmawangsa, the Rosewood-operated boutique hotel in Jakarta, predicts that "hotels at the top end, like us, will do all right and so will the hotels at the bottom." In other words, travel is returning to where it began?an hourglass market, a place with no middle...
Much of the coastal land and the offshore islands are claimed by area tribes, which have helped keep the environment pristine. To minimize the impact of tourism, the operators use floating lodges to accommodate guests. I stayed at Rosewood Hotels' King Pacific Lodge: 17 comfortable, wooden guest rooms erected on an oversize barge. The lodge is towed down to a small, sheltered cove 85 miles south of Prince Rupert in April and then towed back up to the city in November, leaving nothing but a wake in the water...