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...Skip the main park and head for Animal Kingdom ($75). Cynics will argue, correctly, that the park's Kilimanjaro Safaris are merely rides around a large zoo. But this zoo has no walls, and you see it from a rover-style truck. The animals might walk right up or lie low in some brush as a guide imparts PBS-worthy information ("Thomson's gazelles are fully grown at 60 lb."). For adults who can't afford a trip to Africa, it's a highly satisfying substitute...
...course of the past two weeks, more than 90% of the houses in these villages, which lie in the broad, fir-covered mountain valley running up from Tskhinvali to the Russian border, have been looted and burnt. Looters from as far away as Chechnya and Abkhazia were seen hauling away TVs, refrigerators and other household appliances on the back of tractors and in the overloaded trunks of new cars - many of them stolen from the villages, according to local accounts...
...Memmel landed - solidly - off the high bars, contributing 15.725 to the U.S. women's total during the team competition. "I won't lie, it hurts a lot," said Memmel. "But I was confident that I could do it, and that it wouldn't get injured more...
...Athens, in fact, that was on Lezak's mind as he made the turn into the final. "I'm not going to lie, but when I flipped and saw how far ahead [Bernard] was, and he's the world record holder, the thought caught my mind for a split second of: 'There's no way.' But I changed that, and said, 'This is ridiculous. This is the Olympics. I'm here for the United States of America, and I don't care how bad it hurts. So I got supercharged and took it from there...
...Vladikavkaz City Recruiting Center in the Russian territory of North Ossetia lies just outside the main town, through a tall, steel gate. Inside, along a small driveway overlapped by tall pines, lie a parking lot, pavilion and fruit orchard. A low, two-story concrete building with peeling paint serves as the recruiting center. Men in clean, dark green fatigues organize would-be recruits. They are mostly men in their 50s and 60s who have already served but are too old now. Lots of gray hair and mustaches, gold teeth and cigarettes...