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L.a. Restaurant And Travel Critic Elmer Dills Dies - San Diego Union-tribune
pasadena – restaurant and travel critic elmer dills, whose radio and television reports spanned nearly three decades, has died. he was 82. dills died monday at pasadena's huntington memorial hospital, according to los angeles television station ...
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Featured Maryland Renaissance Festival
sat, 20 september 2008 basket bingo show/hide details the anne arundel county family child care association will host a basket bingo sept. 20 at the columbian center, 335 ritchie highway in severna park. doors open at 1 p.m. and bingo begins at 2 p.m. all prizes are filled longaberger baskets.
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Uganda: Qatar Airways To Begin Flights To Entebbe
qatar airways, the national airline of qatar, a petrodollar-rich middle east state, has announced plans to fly to entebbe, hoping to tap into increasing demand for air transport by people doing business between uganda and asia.
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World Percussion Festival Goes With A Bang In Ha Noi - Viet Name News
ha noi — forty-five artists are taking part in an international percussion music festival that started yesterday in viet nam. the festival, titled cracking bamboo, saw participants gather from asia and europe in ha noi from september 15-22.
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Too-good-to-be-true Travel Offers Probably Are: Tqaa - Taipei Times
front page * lehman demise ripples across asia * local financial institutions reveal their exposure * north korea tests ignition for missile that could reach us * morales receives regional support at crisis summit * rescuers scramble to clean up in ...
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Authorities Warn Of Aids Surge In Aussie Travellers
health authorities are being urged to step up safe sex education campaigns in an attempt to limit the number of australian travellers who return home with hiv.
www.abc.net.au

Consular Corner: September 2008
we're honored to present the third in a series of interviews introducing the reader to the people who run and manage the visa application process. this month's interview is with charles j. jess, consular officer and renaissance man.
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Booking.com Announces Distribution Agreement With Marriott ... - Forbes
booking.com, a leading international online hotel reservation service that is part of priceline.com (nasdaq: pcln), announced today a new multi-year distribution agreement with marriott international, inc. (nyse: mar). the agreement covers all of ...
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Restaurant Critic Elmer Dills Dies - Pasadena Star-news
pasadena - restaurant critic elmer dills, who gained his knowledge on food and wine during a 20-year career as a central intelligence agency officer in europe and asia, died monday at huntington hospital in pasadena. the long-time pasadena resident ...
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China Sends Out Inspectors After Number Of Sick Babies In China Grows To More Than 6,200
beijing (ap) _ the government was dispatching thousands of inspectors to monitor producers as officials reported wednesday that the number of babies sick from tainted milk formula had climbed dramatically to nearly 6,200 from 1,200 a day earlier.
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(afx Uk Focus) 2008-09-17 12:25 Update 1-russia Sistema Posts $289.5 Mln Q2 Net, Beats F'cast
moscow, sept 17 (reuters) - (adds vp comments, background)
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Birders Flock East - Wall Street Journal
millions of birders -- including extremists who travel the globe with binoculars and a roster of species to spot -- would have envied me. asia is home not only to hundreds of rarely seen birds, from the orange-breasted laughingthrush of vietnam to ...
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China Adds To Energy Waste - Radio Free Asia
china's overloaded trucks and railways are adding to energy consumption, pollution and waste, experts say. boston--china is wasting vast amounts of energy on transporting coal, analysts say. the inefficiency is causing china to use more diesel fuel ...
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Lana Slezic: On The Frontlines
in nine days, lana slezic will give birth to her first child. but while most expectant mothers are taking the last days of gestation to rest and nest, this photojournalist is doing anything but.
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Us Revokes Visa Of Pakistan Rights Defender
the united states has revoked the travel visa of a pakistani rights defender ahead of her trip to washington to highlight the plight of hundreds of missing compatriots allegedly rounded up as part of the "war on terror," the rights group amnesty has said.
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Us Revokes Visa Of Pakistan Rights Defender - Common Dreams
the united states has revoked the travel visa of a pakistani rights defender ahead of her trip to washington to highlight the plight of hundreds of missing compatriots allegedly rounded up as part of the "war on terror," the rights group amnesty has ...
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Mobile Morgue En Route To Galveston As Search Continues - Houston Chronicle
houston police issued more than 108 citations - and made at least 32 arrests - during the first night of the curfew prompted by hurricane ike, officials said today. the arrests included a group of people arrested in a stolen vehicle, while others ...
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A Special Report From The Committee To Protect Journalists
emin fatullayev is nervous. his son, the newspaper editor eynulla fatullayev, has been in prison for a year, and emin is convinced the family’s ramshackle, one-story brick house on the outskirts of this city is bugged. he leads a visitor to the backyard where, he says, it may be safer to talk.
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Booking.com Announces Distribution Agreement With Marriott International
booking.com, a leading international online hotel reservation service that is part of priceline.com (nasdaq: pcln), announced today a new multi-year distribution agreement with marriott international, inc. (nyse: mar). the agreement covers all of marriott’s nearly 3,000 properties worldwide. earlier this year, marriott also renewed a similar agreement with priceline.com’s travelweb business ...
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Authorities Warn Of Aids Surge In Aussie Travellers - Australian Broadcasting Corp.
health authorities are being urged to step up safe sex education campaigns in an attempt to limit the number of australian travellers who return home with hiv. in the past 10 months six cairns men, who had been working in papua new guinea, have been ...
www.abc.net.au