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...mosaic portals, minarets and medressas (Islamic schools)?was the center of medieval Samarkand and remains the most impressive site (entry $1). In the market near Bibi-Khanym, something of the Silk Road survives as women hawk bread as big as dinner plates, children push barrows of melons and men slice sides of mutton for the kebab stands around town. Most hotels are concrete, Soviet-style affairs. The Furkat bed-and-breakfast offers doubles at $50; call (998-662) 353-261. Or try the Hotel Afrosiab, where doubles go for $90-$110; call (998-662) 311-341. For good Uzbek food...
...nations like Mexico elect more democratic presidents, De Soto's timing is propitious. His Third World clients hope that property-title reform will especially benefit industries like clothing, auto parts and agriculture--where the foreign-trade potential for extralegal businesses is enormous. Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wants to slice through medieval red tape and legalize his nation's extralegal assets, which amount to $5.2 billion--four times its legal assets. "We would," he says, "finally put our people in partnership with the system and with foreign investors...
Tradition forbade the Temple's enlargement beyond Solomon's original dimensions. So Herod expressed his egomania by adding a 35-acre platform--"the greatest ever heard of," writes Josephus--on which the Temple could sit. The Western Wall where Jews pray today is a small slice of the platform's 16-ft.-thick western side. Some of the stones are 30 ft. long and weigh up to 50 tons. ("Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!" exclaims a disciple in the Gospel of Mark.) As Herod built out over the adjacent valleys, the outline of the mountain...
...regulatory burden we do, or a minimum wage, or high fuel prices." Brazilian producers of frozen, concentrated orange juice are thirstily eyeing the U.S. market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping 63% tariffs, slashing Brazil's slice of the $8 billion market to just 12%. Brazil, with its much lower costs, has threatened to scuttle the whole free-trade area unless it regains free access for its juice. But the citrus agency in Florida claims that without tariffs, it could not "keep our growers in business...
...Senate floor debate over President Bush's budget kicked off Tuesday with the vice president's first tie-breaking vote, which determined the passage, 51-50, of an amendment - just trust us on this one - to cancel out another, Democratic amendment to slice off $158 billion of Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut for a prescription-drug addition to Medicare. (The GOP amendment found the money elsewhere...