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...nose for it," he says. His safari with Erica, also an ex-journalist, to 13 African wine-producing countries was a nostalgic reminder of a 17,000-km honeymoon trip from London to Nairobi via the Sahara Desert and Abidjan, Ivory Coast in a battered Land Rover. The Platters' latest expedition of discovery was anything but a leisure trip. Wine tasting in Africa, they concluded, was hardly a gentle ramble through the usual vineyards. Vine growing and winemaking in many parts of Africa, says John, "is as far from Burgundy or California as bungee jumping is from croquet." Highlights included...
...five spacecraft heading to Mars next year. Pillinger's pod will hitch a ride on the $200 million European Space Agency's Mars Express mission, which will also launch a satellite around the planet. Next comes the $650 million NASA Mars Exploration project, which is actually two separate rover missions. And around the same time, Japan's $132 million Nozomi orbiter will arrive to test the Martian atmosphere. Those price tags are modest, compared to the $100 billion price tag estimated for the International Space Station. But even so, why does the world need three missions carrying five craft...
...list of dreaded domestic tasks, taking a pet to the vet ranks fairly high. Dragging Rover or Fluffy to get their shots and checkups can be a Herculean struggle, with pet and owner left exhausted and upset. So what better way to remedy the stress than for the vet to come to you? A steadily growing number of veterinarians are offering house calls or opening mobile services. Membership in the American Association of Housecall Veterinarians (AAHV) has increased 150% in the past decade. LaBoit Inc., a company that manufactures mobile-vet vans, has seen sales increase 40% over each...
What do evangelical Christians, Hollywood liberals and anyone stuck in traffic behind a Range Rover have in common? A desire to rethink the American love affair with the sport-utility vehicle (SUV), which accounts for 27% of new-auto sales. A national television ad campaign will be launched in January linking gas guzzlers to the war on terror. One commercial opens with an image of an SUV driver pumping gas, followed by stock footage of a terrorist training camp. The closing text reads, "What is your SUV doing to the world?" The two 30-second spots are the project...
...ROVER, RED ROVER...