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...exports pass daily through the Strait of Hormuz. Should the Iranians ever find themselves in a position to close it, Americans would pay for a gallon of gas - what, $10? It's no wonder that Iran's Revolutionary Guards decided on Hormuz to draw a line in the sand...
...villa in the sun is many people's dream. Almost too many - it's frustratingly un-exclusive these days. To stand out, you want one designed by Norman Foster, nestled in a palm-tree jungle and within a short walk of a white-sand Indian Ocean beach, an 18 hole golf course and a five-star hotel with a spa and top-class restaurants. You want, in other words, Corniche Bay, a development of 115 such villas and a 75-bedroom hotel on the secluded southwestern tip of Mauritius. It's one of a few high-end resorts...
...time low then, the Canadian dollar was worth just less than 62 U.S. cents. Recovery since then, dramatic and steady, began with something as dull as a rise in oil prices. With that, the laborious process of drawing viscous bitumen out of Alberta's oil sands became ever more viable. Massive shovels churned the earth, digging up the tons of sand needed to produce each barrel of oil. New pipelines were laid. Alberta's already hot economy hurtled forward...
...Tabak said the current proposals are preliminary but that the committee hopes to present its final recommendations to the NIH director by March 2008. “The NIH director uses an analogy: ‘If you have to fill a bucket up with rocks and pebbles and sand, what do you put in first?’” Tabak said. “And of course, the answer is the rocks, so we’re going to be looking for rocks and maybe some large pebbles.” —Staff writer Jamison...
...kids," says Lopez. "At least the mayor is giving something back to the people. Most of our governors give us nothing." The rink is part of Mayor Marcelo Ebrard's campaign to make this polluted mountain capital a more pleasant environment. Last spring he shipped in tons of sand to create four urban beaches, which were also a hit with residents. In addition, Ebrard has built miles of cycle paths, where he has posed for photographs atop his mountain bike on sunny Sundays...