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Favorite childhood toy: Sand dunes and leaf piles...
...Improbable as it may seem, this unprepossessing town of moldy red-tiled villas surrounded by virgin tropical forest and white-sand beaches was named, a few years ago, as the world's most expensive city. With a bunch of carrots selling for $10, a box of eggs fetching $13 and rent on a medium-sized house touching $6,000 a month, it's still comfortably in the top 10. The reason? Port Gentil is a ville petrolier, an oil town that has drawn rig workers and executives from places as far away as Texas, Aberdeen and Caracas to earn fortunes...
...robbers broke into his cages and slaughtered his animals. ("I cried, oh, I cried."). He's just as animated discussing Port Gentil's future. "If there's a big sea or even a lot of rain today, Port Gentil floods for days," he says. "This town is built on sand - there's no soil - and it's almost underwater already. I used to have a bungalow on the beach. Today, the sea has taken the beach, all 200 meters of it, and the bungalow. If we get hit by a hurricane, it's bye-bye Port Gentil." He has relayed...
...This year’s incarnation of the swimsuit issue, which was first published in 1964, features singer and actress Beyoncé Knowles on the cover, kneeling provocatively on a sand beach in a red-and-yellow two-piece bikini...
...perjury and obstruction of justice probably won't hurt his standing. Fitzgerald pursued the Libby case with the same persistence he has shown throughout a 19-year career dogging drug lords, Mafia kingpins and assorted terrorists. He tolerates no obstacle, especially lying, which he once compared to "throwing sand in the umpire's face...