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...poor farmers watching the oxen decline to feast at the Royal Plowing Ceremony, the promise of oil revenues must feel completely irrelevant to their hand-to-mouth lives. What will they do if a drought does indeed strike this year, and their rice shoots wilt in the tropical sun? If the sacred cows know the answer, they aren't talking...
...addition to serving special groups of travelers, luxury properties are currently experimenting with the concept of butlers. The 375-room Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, in Miami Beach, Fla., offers sun worshippers a one-of-a-kind tanning butler. This employee circulates around the pool deck and beach Thursdays through Sundays during peak tanning hours, offering free sunscreen, cool water misters and eyeglass cleaners...
Under a blazing North Carolina sun, faith and power renewed their vows, as three former commanders in chief - Jimmy Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush and Bill Clinton - convened in Charlotte, N.C., to pay tribute to a man they all love...
...When the sun rose the next day, word came down that the climbers had made surprisingly good progress during the night. While some had turned back early, at least 20 were pressing on toward the summit. Breashears grabbed a telescope from his equipment tent, trained it on the peak and saw that the report was true. In his eyepiece was a flyspeck line of climbers inching up the last 1,000 ft. of Everest's five-mile rock pile...
...drums pulsate in gentle rhythms, then pick up the pace as the chanting and rocking crescendos to a fever pitch. As the sun sets, soft pink clouds are illuminated in the sky, and a single electric star glows from above the doorway of the mosque. Suddenly, the drums fall silent, and the dancing stops...