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...mixture of excellence and merriness marked the career of their blocking group. They were as brilliant at living as they were at school. Together, the boys climbed the old man of Portree, a rock formation on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. On that same trip, they rambled a coral beach, fed their leftover, hostel-cooked spaghetti to a flock of unsuspecting birds—and with their dashing looks and American accents delighted a different species of bird altogether...
...London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City and Paris - vying for the honor. Each city has launched a massive, multimillion-dollar marketing effort to get the Games. British Prime Minister Tony Blair will jet to Singapore for a last-minute charm offensive before opening the G-8 summit meeting in Scotland. The French team will screen a short film about Paris directed by filmmaker Luc Besson, and Spain's Queen Sofía and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero will be on hand to lobby for Madrid. The winning city - you can count on it - will hold...
...togethers tend to get saved for their memoirs. Instead, we are treated to a ritual photo of the leaders in funny shirts to dress up a turgid communiqué, disgorged at a press center far, far from the action. But this year's meeting, at the Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland at the start of July, feels different. Alongside the tired ritual, there's some real politics going on. It's not just the politics of protest, for which the G-8 became infamous four years ago during riots in Genoa, forcing levels of security that would make Kim Jong...
...While all arboreal dwellings are a treat for the senses-there's the smell of freshly cut timber, the creak of branches and the sound of wind whistling through the leaves-few are as spectacularly luxurious as the upmarket structures created by the Scotland-based TreeHouse Company (www.treehousecompany.com), which look more like mansions than playhouses. The designers can install anything from kitchens and bathrooms to under-floor heating and electricity. The circular cedarwood dining lodge the company erected in an ash in West Sussex, England, for instance, has all that plus a telephone connection, a spiral staircase, 13 windows...
...takes a plan, purpose and sometimes a streak of stubbornness. Those qualities are all present in the campaign to help end poverty in Africa that you've heard so much about lately. When the leaders of the rich G-8 countries - essentially the world's bank managers - meet in Scotland next month, everyone, from a pair of crusading rock stars to a gaggle of African premiers and presidents, will be campaigning for a better deal for the world's poorest continent. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has already convinced his G-8 counterparts to forgive the debt...