| Exclusive CV spreads its wings
CV Travel, renowned for holidays to exclusive villas and hotels in Europe and Morocco since 1972, has launched a long haul programme featuring some of the finest villas and hotels in the Caribbean, luxurious and opulent hotels in largely undiscovered Oman, and villas and boutique hotels in South Africa's western cape and in Cape Town.
The sumptuous 88 page CV Travel faraway brochure also includes exclusive safaris to distinctive private game lodges.
Managing Director Debbie Marshall said “This is a significant new departure for CV Travel in this, our 35th year of business. The introduction of our dedicated Morocco brochure in 2005 and the acquisition of Ski Verbier enabled us to offer our clientele year-round holiday choices, and we have expanded this considerably for 2007 with the launch of our new long haul programme".
Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
For his new book, Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil, John Ghazvinian traveled from the parched dust bowls of Chad and Sudan to the swamps and jungles of Nigeria and the Congo, and from the corridors of Washington to the gleaming offices of "Big Oil." Does oil-producing Africa live up to the hype? Why is it impossible to buy bananas in Gabon, when they grow in profusion in the nation's virgin rainforest? Can an underdeveloped country like São Tomé and Príncipe learn from other nations' mistakes and avoid the "curse of oil"? What effect does the establishment of an oil-company compound in the middle of Chad have on the neighboring land and people? This week, we are publishing four excerpts from Untapped that answer these questions. Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn't seemed worth the effort and risk until recently.
One journalist's trip through the culture of medical pot clubs to ...
I'm not sure why it didn't occur to me sooner to treat my condition with medical marijuana. I have the journalist's disease -- repetitive strain injury, which results from excessive or nonergonomic typing and mouse use. When the RSI acts up, my fingers tingle and an electrical sensation radiates up my arms, causing nagging pain in the rotator cuff area, prompting me to compulsively poke at the spot. When the problem was at its worst, in the mid- to late '90s, California had recently passed Prop. 215 -- the Compassionate Use Act -- an epochal measure that legalized marijuana for medical purposes, but gave no direction on how patients were to obtain it. So the infirm, doctors and pot growers were on their own. Medical pot pioneers had set up a few medical marijuana dispensaries even before Prop.
No need for speed
Sometimes, it's an official-looking limousine that blazes by you on the highway as though you were standing still, but Lincoln Town Cars and SUVs like the 2005 Chevy Suburban that carried New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine are also common. Governor Corzine's fateful ride ended one week ago when his Suburban crashed on the Garden State Parkway and he was seriously injured. On Tuesday, officials revealed an important fact in the case: His state trooper-driven car was traveling 91 miles per hour. Some people will no doubt find that shocking and reckless. It was clearly the latter but not necessarily the former - at least not to anyone who has ever witnessed a convoy of government VIPs. .
Students from Zayed Academy on a visit to Abu Dhabi
ISLAMABAD, Apr 7 (APP): Twenty-five students from Shaikh Zayed International Academy in Islamabad arrived Abu Dhabi Friday, on the invitation of Shaikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Presidential Affairs, UAE. The visitors, accompanied by six teachers, the principal and the vice-principal of the school, will be staying in the UAE capital for 10 days, visiting various landmarks and schools, private TV reported. "These are our top 25 students and they are here on both an academic and pleasure trip," said Wafea Abdul Ghaffar, the principal of the academy. During their stay, the students will also visit Al Ain, Dubai and Sharjah, he added. "This is the second time for me here, but the first time I was with my family, so I'm sure now it will be different," said Mohammed Ekbal, who excels in physical educatio n, buthe is also passionate about computers.
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