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Relocators warn that acclimating to smaller-town life can take time, particularly for former city slickers addicted to a fast pace. Carol and Kevin Conway fled their lives as Silicon Valley technology executives in the mid-'90s and now run business-service companies in Fort Myers. At first, says Carol, 47, "I was staggered by the lack of competitive drive, the lack of the push-push-push mentality." It took a few years for her to learn that "people who move to secondary markets like this have got to chill." She's even stopped wearing panty hose to work...
...McGovern is hoping to solve the biggest mystery of all, which is where and when the Eurasian grapevine--the species from which 99% of the world's wine is derived--was first taken under cultivation. For unlike the ancient ancestor of modern corn, which has been traced to a valley in southern Mexico, the wild Eurasian grapevine grows across a broad geographic range. It is therefore possible, though McGovern thinks unlikely, that it was domesticated by several cultures independently. What will eventually help resolve the question, McGovern says, are ancient snippets of DNA from wine residues and shriveled raisins that...
Keegan also studies Stonewall Jackson's brilliant use of local knowledge to lead the Union armies a frustrated chase up and down the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. There are chapters on the British disaster on Crete in 1941 ("Foreknowledge No Help"), on the Americans' immense triumph at Midway a year later (a world-historical victory that owed as much to luck, Keegan ingeniously argues, as to intelligence) and the struggle of British intelligence to locate and destroy Hitler's U-boat offensive against England...
...implementation of the Global Gag Rule, it was forced to close its Kisumu clinic, which provided not only family planning but HIV prevention services for hundreds of women in the region. In addition, the organization was forced to close a clinic in Kenya’s Mathare Valley which had offered Malaria treatment, childhood immunizations and HIV testing and counseling. It was the only health clinic serving a community of 300,000. The Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana also lost its U.S. aid; as a result, 700,000 Ghanians lost access to HIV prevention services—including education, testing...
...rival asks $59). A six-person express lift will take skiers from the base to above Timberline. Moonlight's 3,050 ft. of vertical descent, including 1,200 ft. of inbound hike-up terrain, is on a par with the long drops of Park City, Mammoth, Killington and Deer Valley. --By Pat Dawson