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They succeed. For that matter, the entire 36-square-mile West Indian island of Nevis (NEE-vis, population roughly 11,000) welcomes visitors as though they're family. People here are just plain nice, and the setting enchants. Rain forest surrounds the 3,200-foot, volcanic Nevis Peak, which slopes down to old sugar estates --including Montpelier Plantation -- before reaching the sea. Vervet monkeys hide in the trees, goats and sheep wander the narrow, rutted roads, and feral donkeys graze in what used to be cotton fields (and, before that, sugar cane fields). Charlestown provides a city center, such as it is. Several inns and a Four Seasons resort supply upscale accommodations, but this is not the place for nightlife or shopping. "It's developed, but not commercialized," says Tim's dad, Lincoln, who shares ownership of Montpelier with his son, daughter-in-law Meredith, wife Muffin, and daughter Tonya. Not commercialized is just how Maria Russo and Alan Yood like Nevis. In fact, they're sorry the airport no longer consists of two small huts and a runway, as it did when they started coming here in 1993. The New York City couple has made the trek to Nevis -- and Montpelier -- at least annually ever since. "If you had told me back then that I would be the kind of person who would go to the same place year after year, I would have laughed," Maria says. "But it's just so comfortable here. You really feel disconnected." They have high praise for Montpelier's long-term staff. One veteran, Miller Pemberton, introduces guests to the 30-acre estate's banana and papaya trees, coconut palms and gingerflower, as intimate friends. He harbors no such feelings for the monkeys. "They steal my mangoes," he explains. With beautiful grounds to explore and airy cottage rooms that feature high-quality furnishings and private verandas overlooking the Caribbean, many guests stay put at Montpelier. They lounge by the pool, play tennis or swing in a hammock. Others take the daily shuttle down to the inn's private beach, where they can enjoy seaside massages, relax under covered cabanas or have drinks at the bar. One drawback: Getting there requires a jolting ride down a muddy, deeply furrowed road. Visitors who explore beyond Montpelier's boundaries find plenty to do. Winston Crooke, owner of Windsurf 'N' Mountain Bike Nevis, takes me on a cycling tour of the island. We meander from the lovely circa-1824 Cottle Church ruins to the beach, through a coconut grove and up a hill or two. Some customers like to "thrash about" on the jungle trails, while others prefer a leisurely road tour, Winston says. Likewise, native Nevisian Lynnell Liburd of Sunrise Tours leads unhurried walks by the ocean or challenging climbs to the top of Nevis Peak. Other options: Marine biologist Barbara Whitman of Under the Sea gives entertaining lessons about sea creatures, then leads snorkeling trips to see them. Steve Varrow of Nevis Yacht Charters offers his 41-foot sloop, Feisty, for a sunset sail or day cruise around Nevis and its sister island, St. Kitts. Dining on Nevis ranges from casual beachside eateries -- Double Deuce is my favorite -- to fine dining at Montpelier's The Mill or The Terrace restaurants.

"It definitely does not take a Ph.D." Fabris, Palm's director of wireless solutions, said the company may warn customers in an upcoming newsletter about the risks of selling their used phones after AP's inquiries. "It might behoove us to raise this issue," Fabris said. Dean Olmstead of Fresno, California, sold his Treo phone on eBay after using it six months. He didn't know about Palm's instructions to safely delete all his personal information. Now, he's worried. "I probably should have done that," Olmstead said. "Folks need to know this. I'm hoping my phone goes to a nice person." Guy Martin of Albuquerque, New Mexico, wasn't as concerned someone will snoop on his secrets. He also sold his Treo phone on eBay and didn't delete his information completely. "I'm not that kind of valuable person, so I'm not really worried," said Martin, who runs the www.imusteat.com Web site. "I guarantee that three-quarters of the people who buy these phones don't think about this." Trust Digital found no evidence thieves or corporate spies are routinely buying used phones to mine them for secrets, Magliato said. "I don't think the bad guys have figured this out yet." President Bush's former cybersecurity adviser, Howard Schmidt, carried up to four phones and e-mail devices -- and said he was always careful with them. To sanitize his older Blackberry devices, Schmidt would deliberately type his password incorrectly 11 times, which caused data on them to self-destruct. "People are just not aware how much they're exposing themselves," Schmidt said. "This is more than something you pick up and talk on. This is your identity. There are people really looking to exploit this." Executives at Trust Digital agreed to review with AP the information extracted from the used phones on the condition AP would not identify the sellers or their employers. They also showed AP receipts from the Internet auctions in which they bought the 10 phones over the summer for prices between $192 and $400 each. Trust Digital said it intends to return all the phones to their original owners, and said it kept the recovered personal information on a single computer under lock and disconnected from its corporate network at its headquarters in northern Virginia. Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, a respected computer security expert, said phone owners should decide whether to auction their used equipment for a few hundred dollars -- and risk revealing their secrets -- or effectively toss their old phones under a large truck to dispose of them. What about a case like the Lothario whose affair Trust Digital discovered? "I'd run over the phone," Zatko said. "Maybe give it an acid bath." Mauresmo recovers to defeat Serena POSTED: 0716 GMT (1516 HKT), September 5, 2006 Adjust font size: NEW YORK -- Amelie Mauresmo showed grit, fearlessness and poise to stage a dramatic final-set recovery and defeat long-time nemesis Serena Williams in fourth-round action at the U.

03, 2006 The camp is burning in slow motion. While scant food supplies are a big problem at this hastily-built settlement at Anaka, a 2-km-square mess of tightly packed huts protected by government soldiers in the north of Uganda, a bigger one is spontaneous Also on TIMEeurope.com New Targets, Old Conflicts Why the bombings of Turkish holiday resorts could provoke a change in the way Ankara and Washington deal with the P.K.K. Spain's Hoopsters Prove That A Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts It's the team, not the cream that earned the Basketball world championship Warding Off The Evils of Civil War In one camp of refugees from the brutal, long-running civil war, unexplained fires now blaze The Nation That Fell To Earth Leading historian Niall Ferguson wonders if the U.S. overreacted to Sept. 11? Where Free's a Crowd Does the British capital need more free commuter newspapers? Africa's Wizard Of Words Kenya's literary hero, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is back with a tale of African ills cloaked in folklore magic more stories » Get The Magazine Try 4 issues FREE Get unlimited access to the TIME Archive and free delivery to your door Give a gift of TIME combustion. Here, Also on TIMEeurope.com New Targets, Old Conflicts Why the bombings of Turkish holiday resorts could provoke a change in the way Ankara and Washington deal with the P.K.K. Spain's Hoopsters Prove That A Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts It's the team, not the cream that earned the Basketball world championship Warding Off The Evils of Civil War In one camp of refugees from the brutal, long-running civil war, unexplained fires now blaze The Nation That Fell To Earth Leading historian Niall Ferguson wonders if the U.S. overreacted to Sept. 11? Where Free's a Crowd Does the British capital need more free commuter newspapers? Africa's Wizard Of Words Kenya's literary hero, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, is back with a tale of African ills cloaked in folklore magic more stories » Get The Magazine Try 4 issues FREE Get unlimited access to the TIME Archive and free delivery to your door Give a gift of TIMEexplains a leader in the camp, where some 23,000 people displaced by the region's civil war make their homes, at least one thatched hut ignites every day. So many are burning, in fact, that most residents remove their belongings when they leave each morning for school or to cultivate crops. Their homes may be gone by the time they return and, as they have no other explanation for their hardship, they have turned to religion for answers. They believe the fires to be the work of evil spirits. In northern Uganda, well over 1 million of the Acholi people live in camps like the one at Anaka. But a truce last week between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (lra) offers real hope that the gruesome, almost 20-year-long power struggle is finally over.

Israel and the guerrillas have had prisoner swaps in the past, the latest in 2004. American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson met with Hezbollah officials in Lebanon on Monday and asked them to show proof that the two Israeli soldiers are still alive, saying such a move could give a boost to negotiations. Jackson, who has been in the region for the past 10 days, said the continued detention of the soldiers is "becoming a magnet to attract a second round" of war. Annan announced the mediation effort after talks with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Jiddah, the latest stop in the U.N. chief's 11-day tour of the Middle East aimed at getting all sides to implement and support the U.N. cease-fire resolution. The resolution also calls for a 15,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force to deploy in southern Lebanon to keep Hezbollah weapons away from the border with Israel. Qatar on Monday became the first Arab nation to announce it will contribute to the force, pledging 200 to 300 soldiers. Pakistan's prime minister toured devastated south Beirut and considered a similar offer. An Israeli spokesman said his country had no objections to Qatari troops. Qatar — like most other Arab states — does not recognize Israel, but the two countries have low-level trade ties. The U.S., Europe and Israel have been eager to have Muslim forces among the peacekeepers, but Muslim states fear they could be perceived as opposing Hezbollah, which gained considerable clout in the region for its fierce resistance to the Israeli army. Qatar's troop offer came on the same day that the country's national air carrier, Qatar Airways, landed a commercial flight at Beirut airport, carrying 142 passengers, despite Israel's blockade of Lebanon — the first of what the carrier said would be daily commercial flights. An Israeli army spokesman said the flight was coordinated with Israel and was the fourth Qatari flight to land with Israeli permission in Beirut since Friday — an apparent reference to aid flights since this was the first known regularly scheduled commercial flight from Qatar. But officials from the carrier and the Lebanese authorities insisted that the plane had flown without Israeli clearance. On Saturday, Lebanon's parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, called on Arab nations to send flights to break the blockade, which Lebanon has said is hampering its reconstruction efforts. Israel has refused international pressure to lift the blockade until it is guaranteed that weapons shipments to Hezbollah are halted. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani said his country's troop contribution to the international force was an attempt by the tiny Persian Gulf nation "to tell the world of the Arab presence, even modestly, in this force and to tell Israel that we believe in this decision and so we want to contribute in implementing it." Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz — leader of another key Muslim country — was considering a similar pledge as he toured the Dahiyah district of south Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold that was pounded to rubble by Israeli missiles during the war. "If it helps the settlement of peace, Pakistan may consider contributing troops to Lebanon, but such a decision has not been made yet," the Anatolia news agency in Turkey quoted Aziz as saying. Under the cease-fire plan, 15,000 Lebanese soldiers have begun deploying to assert control over the Hezbollah stronghold south of the Litani River.

Tensions spilled from the streets to the halls of Congress on Friday, when lawmakers from Lopez Obrador's party the podium of the legislature and blocked Fox from delivering his final state-of-the-nation address. The party has also pledged to keep Calderon from being sworn in before Congress on Dec. 1. By DONNA ABU-NASR, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 5, 4:30 AM ET JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - U.N. chief Kofi Annan said Monday he would appoint a mediator for indirect talks between Israel and Hezbollah on the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers, the first public word of negotiations between the bitter enemies since fighting in Lebanon ended. ADVERTISEMENT The announcement raised the possibility of a prisoner swap to win the soldiers' release, an exchange which Israel has repeatedly rejected, at least in public. Until now, Israel had insisted that it would not hold any contacts with Hezbollah, but its government has been under increasing domestic pressure to bring the two home. The agreement on the mediation effort could mark a breakthrough on an issue that is crucial to preserving the fragile 3-week-old cease-fire that ended 34 days of Israel-Hezbollah fighting. Israel mounted its offensive in Lebanon after the Shiite guerrillas seized the two soldiers and killed three others in a cross-border raid July 12. The U.N. cease-fire resolution that ended the fighting on Aug. 14 urges the unconditional release of the two soldiers. Hezbollah has said it would free them only in a swap for Arab prisoners held by Israel. "Both sides have accepted the good offices of the secretary-general to help resolve this problem," Annan told a news conference in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea port of Jiddah. "I will designate someone to work discreetly and quietly with them to find a solution." "The only thing that I insisted on is that if I'm going to use my good offices, then my mediator should be the only mediator," he said. "There must be one mediator and effective channel of communication." Annan said he would not announce the mediator's name to allow him to work quietly. Annan did not say whether a prisoner swap was on the agenda for the mediation effort, and Israel on Monday repeated its stance demanding an unconditional release of the soldiers. Asked about the mediation effort, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said that during Annan's visit to Israel last week, "we urged him to bring about the full implementation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701, which calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages. " There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah officials. Hezbollah has not said how many Arab prisoners it is seeking in any swap. Israel was holding four Lebanese before the conflict began and reported capturing several dozen Hezbollah members during the fighting.