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...Creating the Mirage Designers Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren have the skills to transport us to exotic locales- 9/16/06
...Though it's careful not to annoy Russia - ever a major and jealous presence and a key market - Kazakhstan nevertheless had a pipeline built, allowing transport of its oil directly to China. To Russia's chagrin, it also joined the U.S.-sponsored Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline that breaks Russia's long-standing monopoly on delivering Caspian Sea oil to world markets, though the pipeline does not cross its own territory. The plan was to lay an additional pipe across the Caspian seabed to Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, but Russia protested, citing potential ecological damage. So Kazakhstan ships oil there...
...Despite the rising housing market, Morocco will remain an attractive and affordable option for both retired and active Europeans for years to come. Significant progress in massive construction, transport, roadway and communications projects launched by the government to develop the country and boost annual tourism from the current 6.5 million visitors to 10 million by 2010 is already evident in and around major cities. "Morocco is utterly unrecognizable from what it was 10 years ago - and in another 10, it will be totally transformed," says Hassan Belmaheb, a 64-year-old retired Moroccan Bell Telephone factory worker who has lived...
...have recognized Kazakhstan as a "market economy," and it has a firm chance of joining the World Trade Organization this year. Though it's careful not to annoy Russia - ever a major and jealous presence and a key market - Kazakhstan nevertheless had a pipeline built, allowing transport of its oil directly to China. To Russia's chagrin, it also joined the U.S.-sponsored Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline that breaks Russia's long-standing monopoly on delivering Caspian Sea oil to world markets, though the pipeline does not cross its own territory. The plan was to lay an additional pipe...
...them. The prisons are a world far removed from the affluent residential districts of Brazil's financial capital, but in May, even wealthy Paulistas discovered what had been brewing in their penitentiaries. pcc leaders, operating from their cells, orchestrated jail riots and assaults on police, public buildings and transport throughout the city and São Paulo state. There were 187 deaths the first week, according to officials. Further waves of violence followed, amid accusations that police reprisals were responsible for many casualties. Not surprisingly, the mayhem has become a hot issue in elections scheduled for Oct. 1, when Brazilians...