Word: mauritania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This was the first rally organized by the anti-slavery group that was founded in 1993 by Jacobs, Mohamed Athie, an African Muslim and former diplomat from Mauritania, and David Chand, a South Sudanese Christian activist...
...Hundreds of sites are springing up on the Net, housed abroad and not easily scrutinized by regulatory agencies. For the moment, such sites are still cumbersome to use. But there is the risk that in the future, it may not matter how finely tuned Medicare policy is if, say, Mauritania can sell prescription drugs at a fraction of their cost in the U.S. Meanwhile, Americans with prescriptions in hand continue to cross the border each day in an ironic twist on the American Dream: leaving the U.S. in pursuit of happiness--or at least cheaper vials of Viagra...
...Breitling Orbiter 3 crossed the finish line (9.27[degrees] west longitude) over Mauritania last Saturday. Piccard was ecstatic: "I am with the angels and just completely happy," he said over satellite relay. Jones, for his part, said calmly, "I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman." They had sailed into history. And they decided to sail on a little more. "We do not land. We go to Egypt," Piccard radioed air-traffic control in Senegal. "We are a balloon flying around the world." "I will be tearing their eyes out when I see them," their...
...pilots headed toward Morocco, over Mauritania and then turned northeast to catch a jet stream blowing toward India. In theory, balloons can't be steered, but pilots improvise by dropping up and down between different altitudes in search of the right wind pattern. Like surfers trying to catch a wave, balloonists try to ride jet streams, high-altitude currents that usually move from west to east. "It's magical what pilots can achieve," says balloonmaker Don Cameron. "In competitions with hot-air balloons, they'll set a target 10 miles away and ask pilots to drop a marker...
...Egypt. High above Mauritania a little before 10 a.m. GMT Saturday, the Breitling Orbiter 3 crossed over the 9 degree west longitude line that meant it had become the first balloon to fly completely around the world. Now pilots Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones will try to keep the craft headed east until they reach Egypt for a dramatic landing at the pyramids Sunday morning...