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Riga's revival is part of a broader expansion that has buoyed the Baltic Sea region, an area that comprises about 70 million people living in nine countries bordering the sea. Established players like Sweden and Finland are pairing up with emerging economies (and recent E.U. inductees) like Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to transform a region once better known for herring, bad weather and cold war naval maneuvers into a global economic dynamo. "It's a hot spot for growth," says Peter Egardt, a Swede who heads the Business Advisory Council at the intergovernmental Council of Baltic Sea States...
...Overall last year, just over 87% of all elementary students met federal accountability goals in reading, tying Nebraska with Mississippi for the best scores in the country in that subject area. In math, more than 87% of Nebraska primary schoolkids reached their federal goals. Only the subgroup of special education students narrowly missed the targets in reading and math. Among middle schoolers, almost 87% passed in reading and nearly 85% did in math. Special education students and English language learners were the only subgroups in those grades scoring below the federal...
...honest, I might not stay in England at all. Instead, I would catch the Eurostar to Paris, take a taxi to the Odéon area of St. Germain, and book myself a table for lunch at Les Editeurs. Part café, part restaurant, part library, this is the kind of enigmatic, open-all-day place Paris does so wonderfully well. I've had every type of meal there: breakfasts of croissants, orange juice and piping-hot fresh coffee; lunchtime feasts of moules marinières and chips washed down with Puligny-Montrachet; afternoon tea while reading English newspapers...
Because of its location, buried deep in the famous publishing area of this great city, the clientele is invariably intellectual, from intense young students (always chain smoking) to bookish lovers (always giggling) and gesticulating literary critics (always enraged). The atmosphere is lively, yet oddly calming. I could happily sit there for an hour just people watching. And, this being Paris, they'd all be watching me, too: edgy, curious, fascinated by human nature in all its guises. And what a place to end my days. After all, allegedly, I used to be a bit of an éditeur myself...
...same goes for the scuba diving. The reefs off the nearby isle of Misali, a conservation area that protects nesting turtles, reveal some of the most spectacular marine life in the world, with everything from surgeonfish to fairy basslets teeming amid mountains of unspoiled coral. If you rise early and take a short boat ride around Pemba, you might glimpse breaching spinner dolphins. Dry land's no less rewarding. Whether sipping a Pemba punder, a local vodka cocktail, at the side of the pool (exorcised for just two goats and a skinny cow) or savoring sunset cocktails at the jetty...