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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in chilled out Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
ReutersKOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (Reuters) - A traveler's first stop in Borneo, the world's third largest island, should be Kota Kinabalu. It's the capital of Malaysia's Sabah state, with nearby islands and forests, scrumptious seafood, tribal cultures and a...Tags: Salt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Breads, World War II (1939-1945), Lifestyle and Leisure
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Blame all around for Vietnam War
Special to Tribune NewspapersIn the winter of 1954-55, State Department intelligence analyst Paul Kattenburg was in Saigon puzzling over the wisest course for U.S. policymakers. France, with its army defeated at Dien Bien Phu and colonial ambitions in Asia at an end, was preparing...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Political Systems, Woodrow Wilson, U.S. Department of State, Richard Nixon
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Natural Perspectives: The latest buzz on gardening
There's a new bug in town, and it's a bad one. The Bagrada bug, a.k.a. harlequin or painted bug, is an alien invasive insect that is spreading like wildfire throughout Southern California. It's a rather pretty creature with a black, shield-shaped body...
Tags: Pakistan, Kale, Mustard, Agriculture
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Seen and heard at the re-enactment site
People came from far and wide Friday to the site of this weekend’s Sesquicentennial Antietam Reenactment at Legacy Manor Farm off Bakersville Road. The Herald-Mail caught up with a few of them: Ralph C. Lincoln Berlin, Pa. Abraham’s Lincoln...Tags: Antietam National Battlefield, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Judges, Battle of Antietam
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Gibbons (apes) sing like opera stars
KIAHLadies and gentlemen, get your fancy dresses and tuxedos ready because we're going to talk about the opera...and gibbons. Not ZZ TOP's Billy Gibbons, the apes. Japanese scientists say gibbons and opera singers use the same techniques to project their...Tags: Opera (genre)
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Brewing trouble in Asian waters
Although Americans wish to focus on the anemic economy and upcoming election, the wider world may intervene. Competing claims over sovereignty in the waters around China — the East China Sea and the South China Sea — threaten to transform from...
Tags: China, Vietnam, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Philippines, World War II (1939-1945)
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Book review: 'The Newlyweds' gives uncanny take on immigrant dream
The Newlyweds A Novel Nell Freudenberger Alfred A. Knopf: 342 pp., $25.95 Two-thirds of the way through Nell Freudenberger's second novel, her Bangladeshi narrator, Amina, wonders, "Why were some people attracted to what was unfamiliar, and others...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Islam, Pakistan, India, Religion and Belief
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Lack of exercise kills roughly as many as smoking, study says
World NowPeople across the world are falling so far short on exercise that the problem has become a global pandemic, causing nearly a tenth of deaths worldwide and killing roughly as many people as smoking, researchers warned this week as an alarming series of... -
Patience, perseverance pay for marathon champs
News-Review sports writerINDIAN RIVER -- Dustin Pearson of Indian River grew up around the Top O' Michigan Outboard Marathon Nationals. He's watched it many times, his uncle and cousin each have earned national titles in the two-day 80-plus mile race, and four years ago he...Tags: Boats, Auto Racing, Waterford, Human Interest
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Incredible, edible eggplant: Getting your kids to eat the purple vegetable
chrisc@herald-mail.comEditor's note: This is part of an occasional series on children eating vegetables. The series explores ways to highlight a vegetable's flavor and appearance as a way to work around the resistance some picky eaters have to trying unfamiliar vegetables....Tags: Butter, Vitamin B1, Tahini, Salt, Vitamin B6
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As Clinton visits, old U.S. bombs continue to kill, maim in Laos
World NowAs Hillary Clinton made the first trip to Laos by a U.S. Secretary of State in nearly six decades, activists urged the U.S. to step up its spending to clear the vast stretches of Lao land still littered with unexploded American bombs left over from its... -
Katmai National Park Volcano's Blast Still Biggest in Nearly 2 Centuries
Channel 2 NewsA Katmai National Park's eruption happened a century ago Wednesday -- but it is still the largest volcanic blast in nearly 200 years, easily loud enough to have been audible 290 miles away where Anchorage now stands. On June 6, 1912, the Novarupta...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Landforms, Indonesia, Volcanoes, Explosions
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