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Space Tourism Two civilians have each paid $20 million to visit the International Space Station, courtesy of the Russians and booking agent Space Adventures, and a dozen more are in training. On deck: 10-minute thrill rides in suborbital flight...
WASHINGTON A lawsuit filed in July claims that the presence of this 43-year-old plaque in front of the police station in Everett implies that the state endorses religion. The city says it is part of a historical site...
This being rural India, the 9 a.m. bus to Top Station didn't leave until a quarter to 10. In that sweltering interim I had plenty of time to stare at the pane of glass that separated the driver from the passengers. It was adorned with a large, gaudy image of Jesus, and above the messiah's head?just where a halo ought to be?was a sign that read, disappointingly, "No Smoking." A pity. One garners plenty of saintly patience traveling on Indian buses; a few hard drags on a Marlboro Light would be even better...
...nanoscopic hamlet of Top Station is the highest point on the road from Munnar to Kodaikanal and lies smack in the scruffy workaday heart of Kerala's main tea-growing region. Innumerable tons of the stuff that fills breakfast mugs around the world originates here, on the 1,600-meter-high ranges of the western Ghats. In the last days of the Raj, white planters came in their grateful droves, lured by the green hills and tolerable climate. Today, though, this is the domain of Indian agribusiness, and you'll barely see a non-Indian face. The only visitors tend...
...forgetting to sample the wine on a tour of Loire Valley vineyards. When the bus deposited me on a dirt track without a single signpost or marker, it was naturally a pretty tea seller, with a baby in arms, who provided succor. Anita said she had lived at Top Station only since getting married. Previously, she had been a schoolteacher and had earned more in that profession than her husband did now. Serving masala chais with a faintly resigned air, she called her husband out to meet me. Much less outgoing than his wife, he nodded deferentially before stating...