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...While newspapers and magazines cater to the casual princess watcher, some pilgrims want more solid mementos. Every summer they descend on Althorp, the historical home of Diana?s family, where for $25 they can walk through the rooms she played in as a child, check out the small museum that exhibits her favorite dresses and personal letters, gaze upon her grave that sits on an island in the middle of a lake - and pick up souvenirs, like a heart-shaped key ring ($12) or a bone china pillbox ($30). Diana merchandise still sells in main streets and malls in Britain...
...standing at the bottom of Big Mouth, the nickname for the 15-ft.-deep bunker beside the 17th green at the Oakmont Country Club. It's swallowing me whole--I jump off the sand just to peek at the pin. Soon, the U.S. Open will descend on this storied Pittsburgh, Pa.--area course for a record eighth time. But today I'm the entertainment. A couple of caddies encourage me to swing my sand wedge and lift the ball over the mountain in front of me. I take my hardest hack; the ball knocks against Big Mouth...
...comparative historical linguistics with a focus on the Proto-Indo-European language. The language was probably spoken somewhere in central Asia around 4000 B.C. and there is no proof of it in the written record, although linguists have reconstructed all aspects of its grammar by looking at languages that descended from this proto-language. Rau then uses this knowledge to study the history of the Greek and Latin languages, which are just two of the languages that descend from the Indo-European. He is the only faculty member with a core interest in this area, which he describes...
When the leaders of the G-8 countries descend on the Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm in eastern Germany on June 6-8 for their annual summit, they will be visiting a part of the world where eight of nine countries are growing faster than the E.U. average; where several, including Latvia, which last year expanded 11.9%, are topping the European table; and where trade is expected to soar 50% by 2020. The port at Hamburg, just west of Heiligendamm, has seen a 40% increase in cargo shipped through the Baltic Sea in each of the past three years...
...eastern edge, where the hypermarkets throw out meat and vegetables that have passed their sell-by dates. Madeleine, a 60-year-old mother of 10, lives with several thousand others in the area around the dump. When the truck arrives, it's a ferocious feast. Hundreds of scavengers descend on the skip, elbowing their way into the trash and plunging their hands in deep. "The supermarkets are the best," says Madeleine. "It's in boxes, all arranged." Nor do the inhabitants of Mindwube just find food. There are "plates, dresses, jewelry, liqueurs, TVs, dvds, fridges, children's toys and mobile...