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...tourists in the way. The golden city of Jaisalmer, with its Persian-inspired villas and trains of camel caravans, rises out of the desert like a hallucination from The Arabian Nights. Some of India's last remaining great tigers prowl the forests of Ranthambore, while the airy hill station at Mount Abu abounds with shrines and scenic views. Then there is the stunning, 15th century temple complex at Ranakpur, a majestic pile of shining white marble nestled in the wild Aravali hills-surely one of Rajasthan's best-kept secrets...
...attackers arrived in the middle of the night as she lay sleeping next to her 20-month-old son. The gunmen who fatally shot Afghan journalist and radio-station owner Zakia Zaki seven times--sparing her son and other children--acted just days after a female newsreader at a TV station was shot and killed for reasons that remain unclear. One of the few female reporters to criticize the Taliban, Zaki ran the U.S.-funded Radio Peace, launched in 2001 after the fall of the Taliban. In response to Zaki's murder, officials condemned the "terror," and police began...
...King, Sammy Davis or Dinosaur. This is because there was a Bill France Sr.--was there ever. Big Bill grew up poor in Washington and had less than $100 to his name when he moved his family south during the Depression, seeking work. He found it in a gas station in Daytona, Fla., a town that loved gas. Soon France was helping organize stock-car races on the beach. After the war, France, 6 ft. 5 in. and with a booming voice, decided to bring order to a ragtag racing scene that sometimes saw promoters skip town without paying...
...Just days after arriving, Moulton says he learned from his battalion commander he would be helping to establish a free media system. Besides teaching Iraqi civilians and aspiring journalists the principles of a free press, Moulton helped develop a newspaper, radio station, and television show...
...Crimson led to summer internships at a television station and a daily paper, and eventually a summer gig with the Baltimore Orioles, the team I grew up adoring, in the stadium—Camden Yards—my father and I had treated as our cathedral...