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...kitchen of bubbling mud pots in rainbow hues of ocher, pea green and blue gray; of steaming fumaroles puffing from deep crevasses; and of more than 200 geysers, some of which spout boiling water over 100 ft. into the air. Similarly dramatic was the nearby Uzon Caldera, a 6-sq.-mi. geothermal field where we bathed in a warm sulfurous-smelling pond. As we coated ourselves with mud, thinking "spa," our cook, Lukyanova, a regular visitor, warned, "Don't stay in too long--the radon gas is not good for your heart." Oops...
...undermine the Iraqi regime's capabilities in the west of Iraq, where Iraq launched Scud missiles on Israel in the Gulf War. U.S. and Israeli officials tell TIME that Israeli special forces have been operating inside Iraq's western desert on reconnaissance and training missions, surveying 30,000 sq. mi. for places where Iraq might have hidden the missiles and launchers it kept after the Gulf War. "You sniff around in the western desert," says a U.S. official, "and try to get an idea about those hardened concrete bunkers that Saddam has created to put his Scuds...
...catch glimpses of wild horses. Trail rides on tamer beasts are available A GAMBLE Pima and Maricopa tribal leaders hope the joint venture with Sheraton will bring money into their community without relying on slot machines?although a casino is just a short trip away INDULGENCE The 16,260-sq.-meter spa is called Aji, a name derived from a place the Pima considered a sanctuary during battle...
...would help increase efficiency and bring down costs, but government regulations designed to keep people like Nakamura in business prevent that from happening. The Large Scale Retail Location Law, for example, gives small-business owners a significant say in the approval process for new stores larger than 1,000 sq. meters opening in the area. Likewise, a combination of low property taxes and high capital-gains taxes encourages struggling sole proprietorships to bumble along for years rather than just sell out and leave the market...
...northeast of Campbell River by air, one of 91 salmon farms licensed to operate in British Columbian waters. They produce some 50,000 tons of salmon a year, most of it destined for the U.S. market. Young men work their way along the floating walkways around the 10,000-sq.-ft. pens, tossing brown food pellets that are met by a swirl of fish. In these 12 pens, there are about 1 million salmon, each a delicious, silver-sided beauty, and when harvested in 18 months, they will fetch more than $10 million in retail sales...