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...learn from her professional example too. So we are establishing the Joanna Chapman Development Grant, a vocational training scholarship to be awarded annually. The judges won't care which branch of the Time family the winner works for; they'll just be looking for someone with Joanna?s genuine thirst for knowledge. This, I hope, will be a fitting memorial to the extraordinarily brave young woman whom we all-Church and State alike-miss very much...
...first one, Kgalagadi, which means Land of Thirst, was created last year by merging two parks that straddled the border of South Africa and Botswana. The combination is a 14,600-sq.-mi. wilderness area in which tourists and animals can move freely. Since the formal opening last May, tourist traffic has been projected to triple to 150,000 visitors annually. A Peace Parks Club run by the foundation offers 10-day tours of the park that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced rangers of the San tribe, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...
Fleury is the house champagne at Alice Waters' famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., and grower-champagne sections have been appearing on top restaurant wine lists around the country. Paul Grieco, beverage director of New York City's Gramercy Tavern, says, "The public's thirst for uniquely great products allows the smaller estates to flourish. They add luster to the polished sheen the Champagne region already wears...
...People fled," she says. "Some died on the way of hunger, of thirst. They went to the Sudan, but the conditions there were terrible...
...else to go in a world that is loath to offer safe haven to indicted war criminals (not even Belarus wanted the grief). He has always lived in a kind of house arrest, deliberately divorcing himself from the society around him. Now it will just be more involuntary. A thirst for revenge goes deep in the Balkans. Milosevic's son Marko, father of the grandson Slobodan hopes to "visit" and whose wealth makes him a target, didn't wait around to test the new government's tolerance; on Saturday he packed himself and his family aboard a plane to Moscow...