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...Kane got his big break when he was spotted by an organizer of Mali's legendary Festival in the Desert. The annual event has attained something of iconic status in the eyes of African music connoisseurs. Set in the dunes of the Sahara, several hours' drive from the nearest town of Timbuktu, the festival attracts an array of world-music talent, both from Africa and beyond. Kane was asked to perform five days before the festival began in 2004 - not even enough time to put his name on the flyers - but his set caused a stir amongst the assembled critics...
...after it has been repossessed by the bank. Many lenders list REO ("real estate owned") homes on their web sites, and large auctions run by outside companies are gaining serious traction, too. These are outfits like Hudson & Marshall and Real Estate Disposition Corporation (REDC) that come to town, advertise like crazy, then auction off hundreds of bank-owned properties in a hotel ballroom in a single day. In the current climate, business has taken off: Hudson & Marshall is selling 40% more homes now than it was at this point last year...
Despite a jihadist uprising in the north, a political crisis in the capital, and rumors of war swirling all around, it's business as usual in Beirut's packed nightclubs. The good-looking people in this good-time town have long partied to a familiar soundtrack of popping champagne corks, clacking high heels and the generic beat of computer-generated dance music - whatever it takes to drown out the sound of Lebanon's continual crises. But for a relatively small number of Beirut hipsters, there's another soundtrack, evoking rather than denying the instability of their lives...
...single-family home for the $500,000 they'd pay for a condo at the Prada end of the valley, where Range Rovers and $3 million villas outnumber cattle and sheep. Growth, Dunn wistfully notes, is inevitable. "But," she adds, "I hope we can grow gracefully. There are resort towns that were in the position Minturn is in now. It makes sense to learn from their successes as well as their mistakes. I'd like to see an effort to protect our small-town, family-oriented atmosphere...
...mountain village of Yole was a bleak place until a giant, broken clipper ship mysteriously appeared in the town's little lake. How it got there and what would happen if the people of Yole rebuilt it are the secrets at the center of the novel Nacky Patcher and the Curse of the Dry-Land Boats, by TIME senior editor Jeffrey Kluger. Author of several other books including the best seller Apollo 13, Kluger is making his first venture into young-adult fiction. Publishers Weekly calls the book "a fully imagined fantasy with a twist of magic...