| Kenya: Ministers Ask Herders to Start Growing Tea in War Against ...
Two cabinet ministers yesterday launched the harvesting of the first tea crop in Trans Mara District, and urged the mainly pastoralist community to embrace the cash crop. Regional development minister Mohamed Abdi Mohamud officially launched tea picking, in a unique venture by the Maasai community at Keiyan Group Ranch. .
Consumer magazine names Holiday World "Top Value Park"
One of the nation's leading consumer magazines names Holiday World & Splashin' Safari the country's “Top Value Park" in its current issue. Consumers Digest's March/April edition features an article titled “America's Top Amusement Parks." The six-page report names the Top Value Parks in North America, with Holiday World in the #1 spot. The article praises the park's “enchanting holidays theme, an attraction-packed water park and some of the country's best wooden coasters," plus the park's ground-breaking free soft drinks program, free sunscreen, free parking, and no extra charge for Splashin' Safari admission. “This designation validates all these crazy programs we've launched over the year," says Holiday World & Splashin' Safari's president, Will Koch. “Other parks told us we were crazy to give away soft drinks, but we've felt all along it was the right thing to do for our Guests." The Consumers Digest report also includes a prediction that The Voyage, Holiday World's record-breaking wooden coaster that opened in 2006, is “destined to become a classic." The Voyage was named one of the Top Five “Can't Miss Attractions" in North America.
Latest news from Rani Resorts
Just as Rome was not built in a day, it will sadly take a little time to rebuild the newly renovated and fabulous Indigo Bay Island Resort and Spa post Cyclone Favio. But 30 of the beach chalets and all guest areas will be gorgeous again by July and all activities will be fully operational from July.
The Sanctuary Spa will open in October and in the meantime, from August a range of spa treatments will be on offer in one of the spacious Bay View Suites. Staff are looking forward to once again pampering resort guests.
Rani Resorts continues to support and supply the local Bazaruto and Vilanculos communities affected by the cyclone.
Medjumbe Private Island
Medjumbe Private Island in the Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique reopens in April after an upgrade and each of the 13 beach chalets now has a private plunge pool just metres from the Indian Ocean.
The Third Chimpanzee : The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
Jared Diamond states the theme of his book up-front: "How the human species changed, within a short time, from just another species of big mammal to a world conqueror; and how we acquired the capacity to reverse all that progress overnight." The Third Chimpanzee is, in many ways, a prequel to Diamond's prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns examines "the fates of human societies," this work surveys the longer sweep of human evolution, from our origin as just another chimpanzee a few million years ago. Diamond writes:It's obvious that humans are unlike all animals. It's also obvious that we're a species of big mammal down to the minutest details of our anatomy and our molecules. That contradiction is the most fascinating feature of the human species. The chapters in The Third Chimpanzee on the oddities of human reproductive biology were later expanded in Why Is Sex Fun? Here, they're linked to Diamond's views of human psychology and history.
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