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Films and Lectures
HAWAII Movie Filmmaker Catherine Bauknight will present "Hawaii: A Voice for Sovereignty," a documentary that raises awareness of issues that threaten the ancient and environmentally sustainable culture of native Hawaiians. When, where: 7:30 p.m....Tags: Travel, Vietnam, Trips and Vacations
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The vagabonds: No home, just travel
Working as a night-life photographer had its perks, but Matthew Karsten was tired of life in South Florida. Looking at a friend's pictures from a trip through Southeast Asia, Karsten yearned for a bigger world. So he set out to discover it. There are...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Travel, University of California, Berkeley, Thailand, Mexico
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Resort airports in stormy SE Asia leave safety to chance
Reuters* Bali crash highlights risk of turbulent winds on landing * Southeast Asia's top holiday spots lack critical wind shear alerts * Bali airport traffic controllers over-worked, official says By Neil Chatterjee and Trisha Sertori JAKARTA/DENPASAR,...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Air Transportation Industry, NASA, Malaysia, Bali (Indonesia)
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Survey: Many Muslims want sharia, but differ on what that means
In Afghanistan, Iraq and many other countries across the globe, most Muslims support making sharia, or Islamic law, the official law of the land, according to a sweeping survey released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. But sharia means different...
Tags: Africa, Belief and Faith, Pakistan, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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Local Voices: Highland Park and Deerfield
Letters to the editor from Highland Park and Deerfield residents. Gun conundrum The column "Many mysteries shroud gun debate" (Commentary, April 12) was yet another brilliant opinion piece from Tribune columnist Eric Zorn. He ponders various aspects...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Voting, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Tourism and Leisure
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Food and loathing with Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain is country-music icon Johnny Cash making an obscene gesture to the mainstream culinary world with a succinct turn of a phrase. He is poker-faced singer/songwriter Lou Reed ripping through the kitchen with a cleaver. His larger-than-...
Tags: Travel Channel (tv network), Dining and Drinking, French Literature, Lifestyle and Leisure, Julia Child
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Southeast Asia's 2015 unity dream collides with reality
ReutersBy Stuart Grudgings BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei, April 26 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian nations have quietly begun to row back on a deadline of forming an "economic community" by 2015, confirming what many economists and diplomats have suspected for...Tags: Malaysia, Cambodia, Burma, Business, Laos
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In the Inland Empire, an industrial real estate boom
Nestled on the windy plains at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, once austere stretches of agricultural land have morphed into the country's most desirable industrial real estate market, and it is growing faster than any other industrial region in...
Tags: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Kohl's, Mattel Inc., Building Material, Skechers USA Incorporated
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Carpet: It's in the bag
This post has a correction. See bottom of article for details.Rugs have been appearing on shoulders and wrists and backs, carried as colorful, one-of-a-kind purses and handbags. These modern carpetbags use kilim (flat weave), dhurries (hand-woven, vegetable-dyed cotton), suzani (embroidered cotton or silk) and...Tags: Turkey
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Vietnam veterans to be recognized during welcome-home day in The Villages
Those of us of a certain age remember the Vietnam War. Many served in Vietnam or had brothers or sons who did. Others, like me, came home from school and watched it on television every day on the news. Vietnam was the first war to come into the American...
Tags: Japan, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Amputation, Protest, Demonstration
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America's Rifle: Rise Of The AR-15
The Hartford CourantWhen his son turned 14 a year ago, Jonathan Hardy bought the teen a gift that was both a coming-of-age badge and a hot item: an AR-15 rifle. To Hardy, the matte-black weapon is not a dangerous assault rifle. His son's model shoots the same small, low-...Tags: Weaponry, Emergency Incidents, New Britain, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), United Auto Workers
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VA trying to move faster on benefits claims
Our government historically has armed soldiers with the technology necessary to succeed on the battlefield, enabling them to topple targets like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Washington finally is recognizing the importance of technology on the home...Tags: Allentown, Asthma, Eric Shinseki, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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