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...chartered 162-ft. (49 m) yacht on the deep blue waters near Tivat, Munk says Monaco was also a relatively backward town before it transformed itself - and swaths of the French Riviera with it - into the playground it is today. Tivat, or Porto Montenegro as the marina area is being renamed, will have a similar effect, Munk declares: "The whole Adriatic is going to be lifted up by this new Adriatic Monaco...
...remained to protect houses, possessions and livestock. TIME has not been able to verify that claim. The Russian military, which invaded after Georgia tried to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia, has not allowed Western journalists to leave the buses that have been allowed through the destroyed areas. But Russian journalists have been given free access to the area and allege that ethnic Georgian property has been targeted. Explains Dmitri Steshin, a reporter for Komsomolskaya Pravda, a Russian daily newspaper: "[The military doesn't] want you to see that all the Georgian homes have been burned down...
...said there was an urgent need for fact-finding missions to establish the facts of the conflict and to "urge authorities to account for any crimes." She added, "Russia should prevent any further militia attacks and allow humanitarian aid to reach the hundreds of vulnerable civilians still in the area, including many elderly...
Several Russian officials, confronted by aid officials with evidence of widespread looting in the occupied Georgian city of Gori, said the area is not their responsibility because it is legally Georgian territory. But human rights monitors reject that argument. "This area [now occupied by Russian troops] is effectively under Russian control. The Georgian military is not there, so Russia has a responsibility to protect civilians there," says Giorgi Gogia, a researcher for Human Rights Watch in Georgia. In Tskhinvali, however, locals say the Russian presence has helped re-establish security. "When the Russian army came," says Misha Masurashvili, a gangly...
...family spent a couple of years there before moving to the Phoenix area. Still, things were always in flux. How often did the family move? "About 50 times," Cejudo says. "I don't know, it's countless." They often stayed in crime-ridden apartment complexes. He shared a bed with two siblings at a time. In fact, Cejudo didn't get his own bed until he was 17, when he moved into the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) training center in Colorado Springs. "It was tough, but it was life," he says. "Every other kid we knew did the same things...