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...Arabian Sea. As darkness retreats across the Hajar mountains, the barren landscape changes from gray-brown to beige and copper. It is the birth of a new day in the Sultanate of Oman, a legendary home of Sinbad the Sailor and fabled source of frankincense for the Queen of Sheba. In this New Mexico-size nation, located on the cutting edge of the Arabian Peninsula, the dawn light- and-shadow show is a spectacular curtain raiser to a host of attractions + that have made it one of the world's newest and most unusual tourist destinations...
Here the Queen of Sheba once ruled. Here the Magi bought frankincense and myrrh. Here Arabian trade routes crisscrossed, bringing exotic spices, precious cloths and treasures from the East. Here too in 1967 devout Marxists won independence for their moonscape land at the mouth of the Red Sea. After 128 years of British colonial rule, they were determined to use the precepts of socialist orthodoxy to yank a remote Arab nation into the 20th century. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, set up a Moscow- style government and forged close ties with its mentor...
...fresh face emerges from the recesses of hte crowd, jean jacket collars upturned. He removes his shades, tapping the bouncer on the shoulder. "But Sheba said it would be all set." The bouncer points at his guest list, shaking his head adamantly, and turns to the host of hopeful candidates. This is his Wall Street...
...wild rumpus begin!" rallied Bok And so began the Cambridge officials trade against Harvard's expansionist real estate practices. From the stuffed filet of sole entree to the Queen of Sheba chocolate cake, councilors were unrelenting in their criticisms during the closed meeting...
...freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said he last week: "One man doesn't deserve that much. I don't care if he's the Queen of Sheba...