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...Corbett: The earliest and best-known of Indian wildlife reserves, Corbett encompasses more than 190 square miles (500 sq km) and is named after a British big-game hunter who shot several man-eating tigers in the vicinity before turning conservationist. Visitors pour into Corbett for the fauna, which includes tigers, elephants and sloth bears, and also for the picturesque beauty of the mountainous region of Kumaon, where the park is located. There are several accommodation choices available, from traditional jungle lodges to modern villas. www.corbett-national-park.com...
...right amount of time to be press secretary," Perino says, with an eye to her departure date, but "I don't know if this is the best time to be doing it." She has already begun thinking about what comes next. After the election, she and her husband, a British businessman whom she met on a flight from Denver to Chicago in 1997, are planning a cross-country drive with Henry to the Rockies, but she imagines staying in Washington for work in one form or another. And so far, she seems able to take the lumps. "I have grown...
Just one day before Al Gore won his Nobel Prize, a British high court made an inconvenient ruling. Judge Michael Burton said An Inconvenient Truth could be shown in schools only if teachers added a disclaimer saying the film's facts are disputed. Burton found nine "significant errors," among them...
...lost three presidential elections in a row, and Clinton had become convinced that his party had a glass ceiling for non-Virginians (Uncle George having been relegated to the vice presidency by the rise of James Madison). Most important, Federalists opposed the War of 1812 against Britain, since a British naval blockade would ruin their commercial base, and Clinton was against it too. So the Federalists endorsed Clinton when he challenged Madison's bid for re-election...
...Thursday in the English seaside town of Whitehaven, a transmitter tower that had broadcast British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programs to analog television sets since the 1950s switched off. The abrupt blackening was the first part of a nationwide program to make British television entirely digital...