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...tortuous. Shortly after he broke with Robert Mugabe's regime as head of the country's trade union movement in 1997, a group of men thought to be from Zimbabwe's secret service burst into his 10th-floor offices in Harare and tried to hurl him through a window. Since then, he has faced three more attempts on his life, been repeatedly beaten and arrested, and has seen Mugabe steal two elections from him, in 2002 and 2008. On March 6, less than a month after he became Prime Minister, his wife of 31 years, Susan, was killed when...
...majority of the Ghan's passengers are Australians undertaking an almost ritualistic pilgrimage through their colossal backyard, and the local accent predominates in the elegant dining car, where kangaroo steaks and fine Australian wines are served. But it's not all sitting, drinking and gazing through a window: the Ghan stops twice for half-day tours like exploring sacred Aboriginal sites around Alice Springs or floating down the deep, rocky Katherine Gorge. Keep an eye out for any passing camel herds...
...know whom to trust nowadays in Tehran. Members of the feared Basij paramilitary roam the streets at night, often blending in with people lounging in parks or window-shopping at the capital's many squares. Locals are reluctant to discuss anything remotely political in public, let alone divulge their opinions. And looming over everything else is the constant paranoia of surveillance: on the Web, over the notoriously unreliable mobile networks, on the hectic, crowded streets, even at work...
...endured years of preparation and training, logged thousands of hours of flight time and even survived NASA's terrifying "vomit comet" weightlessness test. Now you're up in space for the very first time, floating around the shuttle's cabin, and as you look out of the window, you realize something: you're hungry. What are you going to eat? (See pictures of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon...
...arrest and re-educate extremists. Although the blasts jolted a nation into realizing that terrorism was no longer a thing of the past, the prevailing attitude among Jakartans seemed to be one of determined resilience. "Bad things can happen anywhere - car accidents, illness," says Syarif, an accountant who was window-shopping with his wife and two small children. "The bombing was bad, but we have to continue our lives...