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Gary Eisenberg has climbed mountains in Sri Lanka and scuba dived in Thailand. He has worked in a boatyard in Turkey and bartended in Portugal. He has roamed Egypt, Morocco and New Guinea. Yet this seasoned traveler--who globe-trotted for a decade before settling (at least for now) in New York City as a corporate lawyer--rarely takes a guidebook along. "As soon as a place gets listed," he explains, "everybody goes there. The quality drops, and it is hard...
...from $100) offer the island's most luxurious colonial accommodations. Like other early investors, Dobbs rents out sumptuous villas at Weligama and Tangalla, both within a short drive of Galle, for several hundred dollars a night. Deep-sea fishing is available, as are snorkeling and scuba diving around the southern-coast coral reefs. And Dobbs plans to build the island's first yacht club...
...weren't plotting destruction together in Manila, they were partying, say Philippine intelligence agents. Mohammed took up with a bar girl he met at the Cotton Candy Club. Later he hired a helicopter and pilot to impress a female dentist he was courting. Yousef and Mohammed took their girlfriends scuba diving at beach resorts, but Mohammed remained an enigma even to the women he dated. None suspected that Mohammed, who passed himself off as a Saudi plywood exporter, was the leader of a radical Islamic cell...
...hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs, it can tow up to 3,500 lbs. But Dickie uses it to drive, by herself, three miles each way to and from the office. She also occasionally lugs scuba gear in it, but mostly she likes its style. Which makes her much like millions of other Americans who have bought the big vehicles--drivers now surprised to find themselves labeled tools of terrorists in the brawl over SUVs...
...also advised would-be travellers on alternatives to popular hot spots Bali and Indonesia, which have seen downturns in tourism since recent terrorist attacks. Instead, Shah said, they recommended scuba-diving in Thailand for those interested in going to Asia...