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WHITE'S PORTRAIT of Carter depicts the former president as an enormous contradiction: a deeply sincere man who honestly felt his 14-hour days, commitment to "human rights" and sermonizing did the country good, combined with a political animal willing to resort to ruthless campaign tactics. Of one thing White is certain--Carter was extraordinarily unprofessional...
...lagoons. Two of them are for swimming (one for families and single women and one for single men). The third is for boating. Eventually, the marina will be landscaped with a winding boardwalk as well as shade gazebos and date palms, giving the area the appearance of a Hawaiian resort...
...Americans think the eruption of Mount St. Helens ended the U.S. volcano threat, they may be in for another shock. California's scenic Mammoth Lakes ski resort area, a few miles east of Yosemite National Park, has been jolted by a series of moderately strong earthquakes since 1978. At first seismologists of the U.S. Geological Survey thought the only risk was more quakes. Now they suspect that there may be a danger in the area of a volcanic eruption...
Delegates at the NUR's annual conference in Plymouth, a coastal resort in southwest England, voted 47-30 to suspend the strike after thousands of their 117,500 members defied the strike call and kept some trains running...
...merchant genius of the Phoenicians seemed to linger over the land that Lebanon inherited from them. Beirut, a bright, amiable amalgam of beach resort and international bank and world-class shopping mall and neon whorehouse, was invariably called the Paris of the Middle East. It may have been more like Monte Carlo, crossed with Miami Beach and Zurich. The Lebanese were cultured and vividly commercial. They stood precisely at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern culture, and took a handsome profit by mediating between the two. They have the highest literacy rate and the only real parliamentary democracy...