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...return home to open an adventure tourism hostel. "Land reform is fantastic. For the past 50 years, the young have always left the Highlands," he says. "Mine is the first generation who are seriously thinking of going back. We don't want to go home and work in a shop and survive, we want to go home and be successful." Not that land is a ticket to wealth. "Most of these estates only existed because they had money coming in from outside," says Robert Balfour, chairman of the Association of Deer Management Groups. Derek Louden, the rural development manager hired...
...into the drug market in their new towns. Instead, they dealt to their old customers in a new place. Houston, in particular, had long been a distribution point for drugs coming from Central and South America into New Orleans, so it wasn't hard for dealers to set up shop again. As aid money started rolling in, crime increased. "They were victimizing each other," says Sergeant Harris. "The new crime was to steal one another's FEMA money...
...just classic restaurants like Antoine's or Commander's Palace. It's the neighborhood places like those just up Napoleon from Tipitina's: the pan-roasted oysters at Manale's and the fried ones at Casamento's, nestled between a costume store and a building-ornament supply shop...
...entrance. The store features natural health and beauty products and homeopathic medicines, including vitamin and herbal remedies. “It’s kind of nice to have natural ingredients in the center of town,” said Deborah Ruiz, who says she comes to Cambridge to shop “a lot.” “Now I’ll have to look someplace else for that. It’s kind of disappointing.” Yesterday, during the outdoor May Day Fair, a steady stream of pedestrians walked up to the door...
...make a sale. Nikolskaya, a former accountant and vegetable saleswoman, started selling wedding dresses from her home three years ago, after the birth of her son. It took her three months to sell the first one. Today she has a cramped boutique on Lenin Street next to a hat shop. In the wedding season, she sells as many as 20 dresses a month at prices of $100 to $400 apiece. Is she confident about the future? What does she think of Putin? She squirms uncomfortably, claiming not to know anything about politics. How about business? She flashes a broad smile...