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...race marks the beginning of a much longer journey for Adam and 15 of the village men - a six-month-long, 1500-mile caravan trek from their home in Timia, across the desert, to the salt oasis of Bilma. After collecting a load of Bilma's salt, which still occurs in the form of upright pillars as described in the Bible, the group will head south for Nigeria, where they will sell their cargo to Hausa traders. It is an age-old example of the "comparative advantage" theory of international trade: the salt farmers, the transporters and the traders each...
...that you’re going to read every last book on the list, you’ll end up driving yourself crazy. I don’t mean to suggest that you neglect your classes—just that you take the reading lists with a grain of salt...
...Mallory-Helen Wills-Suzanne Lenglen era--but also the Golden Age of Women's Soccer, the G.A. of Women's Hoops, of Women's Hockey (ice, not field), of Women's Track, of Women's Rock Climbing, of Women's Everything, including Bobsled (which will rattle and roll in Salt Lake City next February). I'm not talking about Q ratings here; I'm talking about competition. It has never, ever been better. Never even been close...
...survey, which included 1,792 adults, took place over July 5-9 - well into the current economic downturn (or correction, depending upon which newscast you favor). And that brings us to one of the many reasons to take the results with a grain of salt: Does the national economic forecast affect worker satisfaction? Probably. Skeptics will also point out that the country?s largest and most powerful union organizer has a vested interest in eliciting dissatisfied responses from employees...
...trial for allegedly helping Fujimori divert $15 million as a "golden parachute" payment to spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos. ELECTED. JACQUES ROGGE, 59, as president of the International Olympic Committee; in Moscow. A Belgian-born orthopedic surgeon and three-time Olympic sailor, he will oversee i.o.c. reforms in light of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal...