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...author of Two Years Before the Mast, took a deferment and had the time of his life. To cure his failing eyesight and to test his mettle, he took a leave of absence in 1834 and shipped as a common sailor aboard a ship bound for California, via the South Seas and Cape Horn. His account of the experience is well worth the read...
...wine and writing about it. "I was lucky. I just found I had a nose for it," he says. His safari with Erica, also an ex-journalist, to 13 African wine-producing countries was a nostalgic reminder of a 17,000-km honeymoon trip from London to Nairobi via the Sahara Desert and Abidjan, Ivory Coast in a battered Land Rover. The Platters' latest expedition of discovery was anything but a leisure trip. Wine tasting in Africa, they concluded, was hardly a gentle ramble through the usual vineyards. Vine growing and winemaking in many parts of Africa, says John...
...training camps, he is thought to play a key role in reassigning trained personnel to terror networks, including setting up sleeper cells in such places as Azerbaijan and Turkey. It's believed that within the last year, Abu Atiyya ordered a group of 15 "Chechens" to gravitate to Europe via Turkey. Six of those 15, according to French sources, were among nine people arrested in raids last month in La Courneuve and Romainville, north of Paris. Investigators say they have no doubt the groups were working together to produce toxic-chemical bombs. Merouane Benahmed, an Islamist known to have received...
...Bush placed his re-election in the hands of people he used to despise. When Bush was running for president, he rarely concealed his disdain for the sharpies of Wall Street, the financiers who made money by trading paper instead of building businesses. He came by his views honestly, via Midland, Texas, where he had struggled and ultimately failed in the oil business in the 1980's, and had watched as investment bankers fled, taking their cash with them, as soon as crude prices began to plummet. As recently as last July, Bush was sharing his dim view of Wall...
...confident pose the two strike together inside their new album. Each record they craft signals another paradigm shift in mainstream hip-hop. But for once, the ante’s been upped on them—the Neptunes now own this hip-hop game, and their effect via the breathtaking “Grindin” on Under Construction is clear...