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...Maha Desert Resort to more conventional names, such as Sheraton, Sofitel and Best Western, whose rooms start at about $140 a night, plus a 20% tax. Arabs from around the region may frolic in the waves wearing traditional thobes (robes) and abas, but there's no frowning on string bikinis, if that's your taste in swimwear. And there is all manner of outdoor adventure, from scuba diving or wind-surfing further out in the azure waters of the gulf to trekking across Arabia's sands in 4-by-4s or on camelback...
...high school, Peter—class valedictorian, an Eagle Scout and a National Merit Scholar—always rose to the top. Now, without any plans for next year, his steady string of rejections has taken a visible toll. He slouches in the booth. He avoids eye contact. His speech is self-effacing and marked with anger directed toward his more successful peers. “Around all these ambitious people, you need to have a job or you’re considered worthless,” he says as he places his soup firmly back on the table...
...knew golf was going to become cool, that rappers and rockers were going to get into it," he says. But Tanner also believes that to appeal to women, urban consumers and kids, "golf stuff cannot look like golf stuff." So his company created sexier golf styles like spaghetti-string tanks and baby Ts. He targeted the urban fashion market and Gen X kids with a logo that features his "UGG Man"--a black golfer with "dancing dreads." Soon celebs like Samuel L. Jackson and Justin Timberlake were wearing the stuff...
...asides. After ticking off two decades of techniques used to delay action on climate change--question the science, claim that the problem lies far off in the future and then switch to saying it's too late to do anything--he drolly notes, "The Bush Administration moved through this string of evasions in half a presidential term...
DIED. JAN BERRY, 62, of the duo Jan & Dean, who produced a string of 1960s surf-music hits that won the pair 10 gold records; of a seizure; in Los Angeles. Berry and his partner penned such memorable tunes as The Little Old Lady from Pasadena, about a speedster granny; Surf City; and Dead Man's Curve--the last two co-written with Beach Boy Brian Wilson. A car accident in 1966 had left Berry with brain damage, partial paralysis and generally poor health...