Word: wintered
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...also areas where the Taliban is threatening farmers with dire consequences if they don't grow poppy. The opium traffickers send in merchants in the fall to prepurchase the crops, so it gives the farmers a much needed cash injection that they use to get their families through the winter. We've done nothing in the international community to provide that kind of microcredit program for licit crops. To my mind, the important thing is to really take the focus off of the farmers and to put it on the traffickers...
...What do you think has been Harry's greatest misstep or failure in judgment? - Susan Bevins, Winter Park, Fla. Susan Bevins, you have asked a question no journalist has ever asked me. I think the way he treated his friends a couple of films ago was quite questionable. They're always there for him, and he was a little bit ungrateful. I think Harry is a flawed character. He can be quite selfish and really manipulative. He's not all sweetness and light. (See pictures of how the Harry Potter cast has grown up during the series...
...this makes me overwhelmingly sad. I love this country; I spent almost every summer, and many winter and spring breaks visiting my grandmother in Rome. Sitting at my kitchen table, overlooking the roofs of the city, I cannot help but think that it is the most beautiful place in the world. Yet, the current political trends here turn my stomach...
Golfers also come routinely to Bermuda, which has more golf courses - nine - than fast-food restaurants, making the country's concentration of courses per square mile the highest in the world. Most golfers play Bermuda in the winter, when it's cooler and cheaper to visit, so the links are less crowded in summer. We recommend the government-owned Port Royal, which reopened in May after a $15 million renovation and is slated to host the 2009 PGA Grand Slam of Golf in October. The regular greens fee is $225; guests of the Pompano Beach Club next door...
...also a hotel catering for up to 19 guests, with tours of the telescopes and fine dining included in the room rate. Access is by cable car from the ski resort of Le Tourmalet, and in winter skiers savor the adrenalin rush of a descent from the 9,439-ft. (2,877 m) summit...