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Twenty minutes down a dusty unpaved road, about 30 miles east of Arusha, past Masai herdsmen in traditional dress, is the guarded entrance to the mines. Ahead, teams of donkeys are carrying drinking water to the miners. At a glance, you can take in the entire four-mile stretch where the tanzanite is buried in maddening folds deep below the earth's surface. It's hard to get an exact fix on how much is there?geologists recently updated their models and project a 15-year supply. Of course, it depends on all sorts of variables. Whether the biggest companies...
...ROAD TO MANDALAY: Mucking in with 100 other passengers may not be your idea of a quiet time, but the nice thing about cruises on the Orient Express' Road to Mandalay in Burma is that they include many side trips, so you can escape most of the crowd if you want to. Guided pagoda tours, market hopping and a train ride into the Kachin jungle are among the offerings. Alternatively, while the other guests are on excursions, you can simply sit on a deck chair, cocktail in hand, and take in the stunning riverscape. The four-night cruise to Mandalay...
...long that will take is anyone's guess. The interim government's "road map" for elections and a return to democracy had a scheduled arrival date of 2010, but Bainimarama now fears the process may take longer. "We earmarked six months for the Electoral Commission to redraw boundaries [unchanged since the mid-'90s]," he says, but he was told by officials the day before he spoke to Time that the work will take 18 months. "So even before we have started, 12 months have been added...
...amid swirls of color that is smeared and partially erased. Or a canvas in which cuddly cartoon characters frolic in the snow beneath the work's menacing title, maybe you should annihilate (1993), in large, blood red letters. Other paintings include cameos by Super Mario Brothers, Lara Croft, the Road Runner, the General Electric logo and a giant Nike sneaker...
...want to rent but a service. At Classic Car Club, Thorne is invited to a weekly happy hour at its bar and lounge, and almost every week, he has the chance to participate in a range of special activities, including taking a spin in a race car on a road track. Oh, and when Thorne is in London, he can rent a Rolls-Royce through the club's reciprocal program there. Similarly, members of Exclusive Resorts are assigned a vacation planner to help them map out their days in paradise and, once they arrive at a home, have access...