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...observer suggested the military might have been behind it. Curfews, either military-ordered or self-imposed, were in effect in every Acehnese town. Meanwhile, in Lhokseumawe in northern Aceh?the military's command center for its largest campaign since the 1975 invasion of East Timor?rifle-toting police in ski masks patrolled the streets on trail bikes. In the countryside, newly arrived marines were entrenched in the ruins of houses torched in previous failed campaigns to wipe out the rebels. Indonesian flags, raised by each Acehnese household by order of the military, fluttered over deserted roads...
...tradition dating back 500 years, the entire Rastro neighborhood becomes a vast outdoor flea market, where shoppers can get anything from a rug to a kitchen set to an automobile wheel. So does Madrid really need an American-style megamall - one that comes with a 250-m ski run? A developer called Mills Corp., based in Arlington, Virginia, is betting yes, with a €376 million, 34-hectare shopping-and-entertainment complex, Madrid Xanadú. In addition to the ski slope, which has a run 250 m long and 55 m wide, covered in man-made snow and over...
...operations to become nimbler and more focused on its core businesses, making trains and planes. "Rigor and consolidation are the order of the day," Tellier said recently, as he announced plans to raise $1 billion by selling Bombardier's recreational-products division, which makes popular Sea-Doo watercraft and Ski-Doo snowmobiles. "We have taken the measures to ensure we will be ready when the business-jet market picks up." But as Merrill Lynch analyst Ronald Epstein points out, Embraer doesn't depend on business-jet sales, and it has invested heavily in regional-jet R and D during...
...once before. According to the Aspen Times, he has made more than 40 solo winter climbs of Colorado's Fourteeners (peaks taller than 14,000 ft.), bringing just water, candy bars and an ice ax--no cell phone, no GPS, not so much as a rope. In February, while skiing near Vail, Colo., Ralston was buried to his neck in an avalanche; a friend was completely submerged for 10 minutes. When an Aspen Times reporter came calling in March for a story on Ralston's climbing feats, the outdoorsman told the paper the ski trip...
...Bloody Marys, omelets and home fries. A ONE-HOUR WALK Maymont, 2201 Shields Lake Drive. This 100-acre estate offers wildlife, a Japanese garden and a nature center. A QUICK BITE Arby's Short Pump, 4250 Pouncey Tract Road. A fast-food restaurant decked out as a Pacific Northwest ski lodge, with margaritas, pad Thai with chicken, and burritos brought right to the table. A LOCAL TASTE The 17th Street Farmers' Market, 17th Street and Main Street. Locally grown vegetables and handmade crafts in an open-air market. A CULTURAL FIX Monument Avenue, between Roseneath Road and Lombardy Street...