Word: travels
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...Travel writer andTIME essayist Pico Iyer's first novel portrays a Cuba where, when the sun goes down, principles crumble, loyalties falter and certainties dissolve. The story is of Richard, an American photographer who, over the course of five visits to Cuba starting in 1987, becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and frustrations of the place. Chief among these is a Cuban girl named Lourdes, with whom Richard falls in love, and who is desparate to leave the island. TIME book reviewer William Boyd calls "Cuba and the Night" a "fine, rich and heady first novel...
...finish means that I may have to opportunity to travel internationally this summer," says Jacobson, who was 12th at this year's NCAA Championships in Indianapolis, Ind. but finished third among collegiate competitors at the championships. "The U.S. will probably send me to a national training camp...
This is not to say that McIntyre and Moore doesn't stock novels and science fiction. The owners buy some, but they are selective in their choices. The fiction section is no larger than that of any other subjects: poetry, travel books, philosophy, Byzantine history, archaeology, advanced math, history of science, Greek, Latin and more...
Additionally, the system penalizes families who must travel to work, Mikulski said, because it considers ,the family car an asset rather than a necessityfor employment...
...days, Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi has threatened to defy U.N. sanctions barring air travel to or from Libya, and today he did, sort of. The sanctions were imposed in1992 to force Libya to turn over two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. Today a planeload of 150 Muslim pilgrims left Tripoli for a pilgrimage to Mecca -- only to turn right around and land again. Then U.N. officials decided to make an exception for religious flights, saying, "Libyan pilgrims should not be denied the right to pilgrimage and should not suffer for the actions...