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...dispute between different branches of the military over who will guard the empty settlements. In the end, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will probably have to pay off all the feuding parties. But by then, the greenhouses - and a chance to grow the Palestinian economy - may have withered on the vine...
...long been known that a glass of red wine is good for you, but now spas are proclaiming the great grape's properties and using it in their treatments. "Vinotherapy" clients are massaged and bathed in wine and vine extracts. Supporters insist that grape antioxidants are more powerful than vitamins C and E and have a positive effect on the skin. "Because of oxidation, the body 'rusts' in the same way an apple turns brown," says Geraldine Mitton, medical director of Sant? Winelands Hotel, a wellness center in the Paarl-Franschhoek valley, one of South Africa's best-known wine...
...area is still littered with a ghostly confetti of coral and shell. Since then, earthquakes have pushed the shore about 800 m away, and the burial ground is now on private land used in recent times for cattle grazing, surrounded by a green tide of dense bush, vine and coconut palms. Some time later a village, now vanished, sprang up on top of the graves, perhaps as memory of them faded. Animal bones have been found with the remains, and large pieces of Lapita pottery appear to have been broken and placed in the grave pits. Flat pieces of coral...
...long been known that a glass of red wine is good for you, but now spas are proclaiming the great grape's properties and using it in their treatments. "Vinotherapy" clients are massaged and bathed in wine and vine extracts. Supporters insist that grape antioxidants are more powerful than vitamins C and E and have a positive effect on the skin. "Because of oxidation, the body 'rusts' in the same way an apple turns brown," says Geraldine Mitton, medical director of Santé Winelands Hotel, a wellness center in the Paarl-Franschhoek valley, one of South Africa 's best-known...
Another name should be added to their ranks: British Mystery Writer Ruth Rendell, who since 1964 has published 26 novels and four volumes of short stories, all of them intelligent, trenchant and graceful. This summer she will introduce an additional byline, Barbara Vine, which will accommodate her high productivity and, she says, give voice to a more feminine, less dispassionate side of her personality. Rendell plots deftly, and she brings comprehension if not compassion to even the kinkiest of characters. Until now, the author has been something of a secret indulgence, enjoyed primarily by mystery buffs. Within the genre...