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Today, the ancient city has emerged as one of a string of economic miracles on Europe's northern fringe. Trade volume in Riga has more than doubled over the past 10 years, and the average annual income has almost tripled to $6,200. Nearly 80% of Latvia's exports - from timber to textiles to farm machinery - now heads to markets in the West. Tourism is booming, too: last year, ferries, cruise ships and low-cost airlines disgorged 1.5 million visitors in Riga, up from 1.1 million the previous year. Visvaldis Lacis, an 83-year-old author and parliamentarian, recalls that...
...Principe is part of a string of countries on the Gulf of Guinea, the right angle in Africa's west coast, which is the oil industry's new El Dorado. By some estimates, Africa holds 10% of the world's reserves, but that figure belies the importance West Africa has already achieved as a source of energy. According to Poisoned Wells, a new book on African oil by Nicholas Shaxson, an associate fellow with international affairs institute Chatham House in London, the U.S. imported more oil from Africa than from the Middle East in 2005, and more from the Gulf...
...extravagant weekend in Vegas? At the Ritz-Carlton in Henderson, Nev., the Love at Lake Las Vegas weekend package includes two nights in the 2,400-sq.-ft. presidential suite, helicopter and gondola rides, a champagne-tasting dinner on a yacht complete with rose petals strewn about and a string trio, use of a luxury car throughout the stay, in-room couples spa treatment, a $5,000 casino line of credit, a $50,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus, 14 dozen roses and a butler-drawn Cristal champagne bath...
...Shane Pais. The next two Great Danes sacrificed Pais to third, bringing up Maisonet. The junior singled through the right side to score Pais with what would prove to be the game’s only run.“We out-hit them but didn’t string things together,” Allard said. “We didn’t get a big hit and they did.”Harvard had chances to take the lead in the second and third innings, but McIntosh would not let the Crimson take advantage of the opportunities...
...campaign is a response to an incident on the Quad lawn that occurred on Saturday during an event organized by the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW). After a string of e-mails sent over the Cabot open-list that questioned whether the participants were Harvard students, one student called University police...