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| | | A British Benedictine monk is using his holy hands to make organic beauty products from beeswax. |
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A writer for a small Georgia newspaper was forcibly removed from a press area near Air Force One after she tried to deliver a letter to President Barack Obama. Brenda Lee was trying to give the President a letter opposing gay marriage. 05/29/09
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| | | Eleven-year old Oy dreams of becoming a famous musician while studying at Bangkok''s School for the Blind. But it''s an uphill struggle for Thailand''s half a million blind citizens. |
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| | | Get a sneak peek at the hottest movie stars the summer has as TV Guide checks out Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Katherine Heigl from the SUMMER''S SEXIEST MOVIE STARS special, airing Sunday, May 24th at 8pm on the TV Guide Network! |
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| | | Bystander beaten before dying in gang shooting, Calgary police reveal |
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| | | Joey McIntyre of the boy band New Kids on the Block arrives at the Miami International Airport in Miami, FL. |
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| | | Hear from Dexter Fowler after the Rockies'' win against the Tigers. Fowler scored two runs in Colorado''s 4-3 victory. |
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| | | A British Benedictine monk is using his holy hands to make organic beauty products from beeswax. |
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| | | Authorities say 4 college students are facing charges for a fraternity hazing that caused the alcohol-induced death of a university freshman. |
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| | | Howie Kendrick talks with FS West after L.A.''s 3-0 win over Seattle. Kendrick went 1-for-3 with a solo home run for the Angels. |
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| | | Chelsea and German footballer Michael Ballack takes a quick dip in the ocean while his wife Simone Lambe looks on as she enjoys the warm South Florida sun. The two packed up and headed back into their luxury hotel shortly afterwards. |
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| | | The Supreme Court declared Monday that white firefighters in Connecticut were unfairly denied promotion because of their race, ruling against minorities in a major reverse discrimination case that could affect bosses and workers nationwide. |
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Dubai could lose its place on the Women's Tennis Association Tour calendar after Israeli Shahar Peer was denied entry to compete at this week's event, the WTA supremo warned Monday. Peer was scheduled to fly into the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, but was informed Saturday night by telephone that she would not be granted a visa. WTA Chairman and CEO Larry Scott said the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour "will review appropriate future |
Thailand feared a spike in violence in its Muslim deep south on Friday after an unknown rebel group announced a "ceasefire" dismissed by some analysts as a hoax that might enrage real fighters on the ground. The surprise announcement by the so-called Thailand United Southern Underground on Thursday was rubbished by security |
A British spiritualist minister was found guilty Monday of murdering his Emmy award-winning TV make-up artist wife and dumping her body in the woods. David Chenery-Wickens, 52, killed 48-year-old Diane Chenery-Wickens in January last year after she began to unravel his web of sexual and financial lies. On the day she was murdered, Diane Chenery-Wickens |
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A look at Sudan's Darfur region and the conflict that led the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant on Wednesday for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir. THE REGION: A vast arid plateau in western Sudan about the size of France with a population estimated at about 6 million. Up to 300,000 people died and 2.7 million fled their homes since |
Police detained several suspects connected to the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in Pakistan, but said Wednesday they had made no progress in tracking down the gunmen that wounded seven players and killed six police guarding them. Senior police official Haji Habibur Rehman said police raided locations in Lahore and surrounding districts and |
Hurricane Henriette roared toward farming states in mainland Mexico on Wednesday, threatening heavy rain and winds for large corn and tomato crops after pummeling the Pacific beach resort of Los Cabos. Henriette, a relatively weak Category 1 storm that killed seven people including a foreign tourist on its route up the Pacific coast, swept into the Gulf of California |
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Growing up in America, Joshu Harris was captivated by the mystique, music and history of Cuba. So before Harris started law school, he traveled to Santiago in southeastern Cuba -- something very few Americans can do today. While there, he played his trumpet with a local dance band, touring across the Cuban countryside. I wanted to see and experience the country |
The title on Chris Doyle's business card reads "mad scientist," but he's not crazy, he's just crazy about snowboarding. Doyle decided one snowy day in New York to quit his job as a bank accountant and chase his dreams on the snowy slopes of Vermont. Eventually, that spur-of-the-moment decision led to his job as senior product development specialist |
Scientists expect some great travel spots to be altered or ruined by global climate change. Some of the changes are already taking place. Others are expected to be seen in coming decades. There are two ways to look at this: Either stay home (which might be less depressing and won't add more airline emissions) or get a move on it |
The Economist Intelligence Unit will publish a report -- The Austere Traveller -- in February that will show that business travelers' expectations are changing. Economic pressures mean executives now care less about luxury. Instead they are going back to basics. In 2009 we will be traveling less, for shorter periods and trading down in hotels, airlines and restaurants. |
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There's a $24 charge for two movies on Keeley Hozjan's hotel bill. Movies that were never ordered or watched. Although the hotel promises an investigation, the charge shows up on Hozjan's credit card only a day after checkout. What gives? Q: What can you do if a hotel is charging you for something you didn't use? I stayed at the Liaison Capitol |
Lower Occupancy Rates Brought On By Recession Mean Lower Prices For Travelers "Now is probably the best season to travel," said Roger Dow, the president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association. In big tourist destinations, hotels have resorted to slashing room rates. Stays in Las Vegas, New York and Honolulu dropped by at least 20 percent, |
Gas prices nationwide jumped a bit over the past two weeks, according to a survey published Sunday. A gallon of self-serve regular cost, on average, $1.86, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey. That's a rise of nearly 8 cents over the past two weeks. After breaking all-time-high records over the summer, prices |
Scientists expect some great travel spots to be altered or ruined by global climate change. Some of the changes are already taking place. Others are expected to be seen in coming decades. There are two ways to look at this: Either stay home (which might be less depressing and won't add more airline emissions) or get a move on it |
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY» |
The astronauts aboard the linked shuttle-station complex took a congratulatory call from the White House on Tuesday and told President Barack Obama and schoolchildren all about their adventures in space. Obama got a big laugh in orbit and on the ground when he told the 10 space travelers that at a cruising speed of 17,500 mph, "We're glad that you are using the hands-free phone." |
A teenage hacker from New Zealand who helped a criminal network to infiltrate more than 1 million computers worldwide and skim millions of dollars from bank accounts has been hired as a cybersecurity consultant by the country's second-largest telecommunications company. Owen Thor Walker has skills that can help senior executives and |
The Conficker Internet worm could strike at infected computers around the world on April 1, a security expert warned Monday. Conficker is a sophisticated piece of malicious computer software, or malware, that installs itself on a Windows PC's hard drive via specially written Web pages. It then conceals itself on a computer. |
Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupted six times, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano's first emissions in nearly 20 years. Residents in the state's largest city were spared from falling ash, though fine gray dust fell Monday morning on small communities north of Anchorage. "It's coming down," Rita Jackson, 56 |
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After eight days together, space shuttle Discovery pulled away from the international space station Wednesday, ending a successful effort to boost electrical power and science research at the orbiting outpost. The two spacecraft went separate ways as they soared above the Indian Ocean. The undocking puts Discovery and its seven-member crew on course |
Blockbuster Inc. plans to rent and sell its movies and TV shows through TiVo Inc.'s digital video recorders in the second half of this year. The Dallas-based video rental company is playing catch-up to rival Netflix Inc., which already offers free instant streaming of its movies and TV shows through TiVo DVRs and other devices with its "Watch Instantly" service. |
The dewy-eyed innocence of baby harp seals has prompted a rare burst of environmental activism in Russia that has moved Vladimir Putin to end their slaughter. The annual spring cull in the northern White Sea region has been scrapped after Putin condemned the clubbing of baby seals for their fur as a "bloody trade." |
Three juvenile Triceratops, a species thought to be solitary, died together in a flood and now have been found in a 66 million-year-old bone bed in Montana, lending more evidence to the idea that teen dinosaurs were gregarious gangsters. Triceratops were ceratopsids, herbivorous dinosaurs that lived until the the very end of the Cretaceous Period. |
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In her bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi writes of a beloved friend and advisor who tells her, Lady, we do not need your truths but your fiction -- if you're any good, perhaps you can trickle in some sort of truth, but spare us your real feelings. Fiction is all well and good. Reading Lolita in Tehran, after all |
Parents wanting to instill good eating habits in their children, particularly teenagers, should make sure they eat meals together. In one of the first long-term studies to look at the benefits of family meals, researchers at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota found that family meals have a big impact on |
King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain will appear at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival's gala ¡Viva España! celebration of Iberian cuisine and wines at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. The event benefits Florida International University's School of Hospitality and Tourism Management and Fundación España-Florida. For information and |
Global auction house Christie's sold HK$31.54 million ($4.07 million) of fine wine at a Hong Kong auction on Saturday, capitalizing on the growth of Asian demand for top vintages. Sales at the auction, which was buoyed by a rare collection of vintages sourced from Chateau Latour's reserve cellars, topped a pre-sale estimate of $3.2 million, with 94 percent of lots sold. |
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Fifteen years after Miami's Pedro Zamora became a national symbol for living with HIV -- and dying of AIDS -- a new drama about his life will soon debut on the network that made him a reality TV star. Pedro, a film written by Dustin Lance Black, who won an original-screenplay Oscar for Milk, |
Designer Jil Sander's fashions are making a comeback, not on the runways of Milan or Paris but on the shelves of Japanese budget clothing retailer Uniqlo, which is thriving in the recession. Uniqlo's owner, Fast Retailing, said it had hired Sander as design consultant and to oversee its collection for the next fall and winter seasons, plus possibly create her own line. |
Ann Parsons, the new director of The Kampong in Coconut Grove, once spent a summer in Canada teaching Cree-Ojibway Indians to plant potatoes. She lived in a house without running water and was warmed by a wood-burning stove. She followed a boyfriend to Hawaii and, while that didn't work out, she made such good friends |
Malaysia may require women to obtain family consent before allowing them to travel alone outside the mainly Muslim country, state news agency Bernama reported on Saturday, quoting the foreign minister. he foreign and home ministries are considering the idea in response to a string of cases where women traveling alone were used by |
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