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When the British Open was contested at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in 1998, Justin Rose, a 17-year-old English amateur, finished in fourth place after holing a 40-yd. (36 m) pitch shot on the final hole. The defining image of the tournament was of Rose smiling at the heavens after his improbable shot, his arms raised in jubilation. Pundits and players alike predicted that he would be golf's next great champion...
...Richard Chin, fitness-center manager Hire a mountain bike at the O'Russei Market area - street 107 has several rental shops - and take a short cycle in the late afternoon around central Phnom Penh's Royal Palace and National Museum area. Most rental bikes don't have lights, so be off the streets by sundown, and quench your thirst at the Fizz juice bar, tel: (855-92) 360 632, which is a short distance from the main riverfront bar and restaurant area on Sisowath Quay. For dinner, Khmer-Thai Restaurant, tel: (855-92) 810 812, near Tuol Tumpong Market...
...their ongoing efforts to blame each other for spiraling prices. Or maybe they just think it in poor taste to gloat about their record profits. But even Monday's news that Iraq would open six of its oil fields to international contracts - news that came just hours after Royal Dutch Shell president Jeroen van der Veer announced to the congress that such a deal was "weeks, not months" away - failed to lighten the mood...
...turmoil of constant local wars and foreign invasions prompted Jaipur's ruler, Jai Singh II, to begin building Jantar Mantar in 1724. The astronomical observatory would allow soothsayers to monitor cosmic shifts so as to better divine auspicious dates for royal enterprises, and to predict the fate of ruler and ruled. Nestled in the heart of New Delhi, Jantar Mantar today is mainly a tourist attraction, although it continues to function as an observatory of sorts - a window into what the writer V.S. Naipaul called "India's million mutinies...
...there's been no rush for the exits by the corporate giants that have helped keep Zimbabwe ticking along, including Royal Dutch Shell, British American Tobacco, and the Anglo American Corporation, which owns a platinum mine in the country. Many of the 79 companies listed on the Harare Stock Exchange are, in fact, earning solid returns, despite the daily misery of most Zimbabweans amid severe shortages of food, electricity and fuel. Last year the London-based commodities firm Lonrho began an investment fund called LonZim, aiming to snap up investments before the collapse of Zimbabwe's government. Zimbabwe's immense...