Word: travel
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...Westerners for nothing: They?re very vulnerable to abuse and corruption; they require massive bureacracies to regulate; and the sheer complexities of a government's implementation of them tends to scare away capital. Because Mahathir?s plan places tight limits on importers and exporters as well as Malaysians who travel abroad, it also means regulatory headaches for the governments of neighboring countries. Currency controls have traditionally resulted in stagnation and recession, and tend to move countries farther away from the reforms they will eventually need to prosper in today?s unforgiving global economy...
...lobbying group based in Sacramento, Calif. "We are not only reducing the size of their available range but fragmenting it." She recalls a recent incident in Roseville, Calif., where a lion walked right through a brand-new apartment complex. The site straddled a natural pathway that lions used to travel between neighboring ranges. "There was probably a female in heat in the next canyon over that he'd visited before," says Sadler...
Glenn spent the next decade working in private industry, most notably (and incongruously) as an executive with the Royal Crown Cola company. In 1974 he parlayed his still glittering name recognition into a seat in the U.S. Senate. Even as a member of Congress, he remained smitten with space travel, but as an aging lawmaker who hadn't been in a flight rotation or ready room in years, he accepted the fact that his professional flying career was over. And it was--at least until three years...
Some families travel well. Not mine. When Zoe and Ella aren't behaving like Curly and Moe in the back seat--finger jabs, nose tweaks and attempted first-degree wedgies--baby Clementine is performing one of her eerie, hour-long imitations of the Emergency Broadcast System. That's why I decided to use the Web to help me navigate during my recent summer vacation. I figured that the more I knew about the route I'd be driving--how many miles to the destination, how far between rest stops, even how to get there in the first place--the better...
Shortly before John Glenn left Washington for his flight training, TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger and Washington correspondent Dick Thompson visited him in his Senate office for a wide-ranging discussion of space travel, politics and Glenn's historical legacy. Though apparently happy with where the nation's space program is going, Glenn seems less pleased with the direction in which its political system is heading...