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...effort is paying off. CIVB president Christian Delpeuch recently returned from a three-continent promotional tour. "Sales since the beginning of 2005 have never been so good," he says, noting up to 47% export increases to Britain, the U.S. and China from December 2005 through February 2006. "Those smart enough to have concentrated their efforts on quality and promotion are rapidly taking back the market...
...over the flashy tourist trade. "What's changing in the last few years here is quality," says Begoña Iturriaga, head of investment for IREA, Spain's biggest real estate consultancy. "Ten years ago you could sell anything." As competition matures in Morocco, Turkey and Croatia, Spain's smart money is appealing to upscale sunseekers like the Harveys. They walk to the gym every morning and, although they have a car, they can take a bus almost anywhere they want to go locally or catch a 20-minute train to Málaga. Their compound is a European microcosm...
...both air-to-air and air-to-surface combat THE TARGET The house, made of cinder blocks and reinforced concrete, was set back in a grove of date palms, about 1.25 miles (2 km) northeast of the village of Hibhib First bomb GBU-12 A 500-lb. (227 kg) smart bomb that follows a laser signal to its target. An electronics pod under the aircraft or a spotter on the ground illuminates the target with a laser. A guidance system in the nose of the bomb detects that spot and controls the movements of the airfoils in the rear...
...Sonora Smart Dodd was listening to a sermon on self-sacrifice when she decided that her father, a widower who had raised six children, deserved his very own national holiday. Almost a century later, people all over the world spend the third Sunday in June honoring their fathers with ritual offerings of aftershave and neckties, which leads millions of fathers to have precisely the same thought at precisely the same moment: "My children," they think in unison, "make me happy...
...love beyond all measure those who try our patience and weary our bones is at once our most noble and most human quality. The fact that children don't always make us happy--and that we're happy to have them nonetheless--is the fact for which Sonora Smart Dodd was so grateful. She thought we would all do well to remember it, every third Sunday in June...