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...track Barack Obama's path through the Middle East in recent days was to stick a pin in the region's bloodiest spots: Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian territories. But another Middle East was also on show this past week, and it is a place - a new world, actually - that is overflowing with wealth, confidence and ambition...
...January 1996, journalists found two freshly graded areas of soil straddling a dirt track in the village of Glogova, in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina.The larger patch to the south, 20 yd. by 50 yd. (46 m by 18 m) in size, revealed the shattered remains of human beings: a splintered femur amid rubber boots; a broken skull, barely distinguishable from the smooth white stones surrounding it; a jawbone still holding nine teeth. The patch to the north held its own evidence of atrocity: a torn, stained bandage; a split limb still bearing flesh; the rich, sweet smell of human decay...
...group is about to make a major breakthrough: its first LP, Sigue Sigue Sputnik Flaunt It, will be released in July in Britain--complete with commercials. The record has the ambiguous distinction of being the first to hawk wares between the cuts. Eight to ten 20- to 30-second tracks on the EMI record will extol such salables as cellular mobile telephones and fashion and youth magazines. According to Sigue Sigue, each advertising track will cost roughly $1,500, and the promotion will also appear on the album sleeve. The point, says Bassist James, is to keep down production costs...
...Anchorage, a matter of some 4,500 miles. But you can't drive from Juneau, the capital, to Anchorage. The road from Juneau goes 40 miles and stops. Take a plane. Take a ferry; in Alaska, the ferries are part of the highway system. Taylor Highway, a gravel track passable in summer, heads north from the Alaska Highway through Chicken (so named, according to local lore, because its founders could not spell ptarmigan) and eventually reaches Eagle, where it stops. The most self-indulgent and leisurely way to reach Alaska is to head for Seattle or Vancouver, board a cruise...
...resort complex at the time - a high-profile push to find Madeleine was launched. Soccer star David Beckham appealed for information. Kate and Gerry McCann even secured a brief audience with the Pope. And while reported sightings came to nothing, millions of dollars poured into a fund to help track down the couple's daughter...