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...Atacama - so early registration is essential. While your fitness levels don't have to be tip-top (you can stroll the entire length of the course if you wish), you had better have deep pockets. Each leg in 2009 will cost you $3,100 to enter. For more information, visit www.4deserts.com...
...July 27, after a coordinated series of bomb blasts rocked Ahmedabad, an elegant, ancient city in the western state of Gujarat. Coming just a day after eight blasts hit Bangalore, the center of India's thriving technology industry, the attack seemed, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during a visit to Ahmedabad, to target India's cosmopolitan, secular social fabric. The whole country seemed to sense the threat, as India's major cities immediately set up checkpoints and metal detectors. At least 17 more unexploded bombs were defused on July 29 in Surat, a global diamond hub halfway between Ahmedabad...
...Louvre Faces the Future Peter Gumbel's article "Le Louvre Inc." warmed the cockles of my heart [July 28]. It made me feel that my favorite museum is well cared for by its director, Henri Loyrette. I visit a different section of the Louvre every time I visit Paris, and it will take me a lifetime to see it all - if I ever do. But I am now certain that my grandchildren, their children and all coming generations will also be able to enjoy the world's greatest museum. Issa Boullata, Montreal...
...1800s, there was a certain logic--and a cool distance--to the formal calling card. Those who were part of, or sought a place among, the social élite would deliver a card with their name engraved on it to someone's home to request a visit. But now that you can IM, e-mail or text pretty much anyone immediately, the Victorian practice seems laughably outmoded, right? Not so, according to a growing number of enthusiasts reviving the old-fashioned social-networking tool. "Is it technology fatigue? A colorful way of branding yourself? We're not sure," says Peter...
...approach to the economy may be squandering that reservoir of goodwill. During a primary-campaign stopover, he offered a straight-talk diagnosis: "Some jobs that have left Michigan are not coming back." He has since tried to massage the message, but that task was made more difficult during a visit with GM workers, which McCain spent explaining why one of his closest advisers had just dismissed concerns about the economy as a "mental recession...