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...many Cape estates include scenic picnic facilities or restaurants with decent cuisine--mostly European, with some South African touches such as ostrich filet, Cape Malay curry and water-lily and lamb casserole. Service is excellent, and the local wine is abundant, inexpensive and palatable. Several of the score of multistar restaurants are among the country's Top 10. Indeed, the mountain-ringed valley of Franschoek, where French Huguenot settlers arrived 300 years ago, bringing their winemaking skills with them, is something of a gourmet capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Wine Country | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

First, the star-sighter locked on Alderamin. Then it fixed its gaze on Regulus. Another roll on its axis, and Mariner picked out Naos, then a multistar cluster near Naos. Finally, when Mariner was 360,000 miles from earth, its electronic eye found a star bright enough to send the proper radio report: Mariner had locked on Canopus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: On to the Red Planet | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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