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...spots like the scenic Valley of Love park and crescent-shaped Xuan Huong Lake, you'll find a lot of Disneyesque diversion, such as swan-shaped paddleboats. They may not be to everyone's taste, but there's no denying the romantic appeal of the town's evergreen forests, waterfalls and lakes. A major draw for many newlyweds is the colonial-style Sofitel Dalat Palace. [For reservations call (84-63) 825444.] Communism may be the country's credo, but in Dalat, it's cupid who runs the show...
...needn't get exotic. Many blue-chip government and corporate bonds around the world yield more than Treasuries and comparable corporate bonds in the U.S. So while the benchmark Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate Bond Index yields just 3.9%, you can pick up 5.6% with a high-quality fund like Evergreen International Bond, which buys mostly investment-grade debt and has outperformed its peer group over one, three and five years. About half its assets are in corporate bonds...
Eight hundred miles north of Montana, in upper Saskatchewan, sprawls a land of vast evergreen forests laced with lakes and streams, windblown sand ridges--and the world's richest deposits of uranium. From this Canadian wilderness, centered on the Athabasca Basin, fully a quarter of the world's annual supply of uranium is unearthed, most of it from a single mine called McArthur River. In a world increasingly concerned about the flow and price of oil from the Middle East, demand for the mine's controversial product is quietly rising...
...Three weeks ago, the Cochran Christmas was more like Ash Wednesday. De-Shawto and Phenom had no cash for the kids' presents. (The shelter helped out there: people donated gifts from the residents' wish lists.) But they did succumb to the kids' begging and pulled the six-foot faux evergreen tree out of storage: it's still lighted up in the living room because there aren't enough lamps to go around and the kids can huddle around it in the evenings to do their homework...
McGrath stays focused on the heart of his story, the conflict between perfect good and perfect evil, making for a beguiling evocation of the quality that keeps Dickens evergreen: the exuberant openness with which he expresses our most basic emotions...