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Countries where dollars go the distance
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLonging for an out-of-country excursion but feeling a little poor because you have only dollars in your pocket? Relax. Even with the fast-eroding value of the dollar against other currencies, you still can find international destinations where your buck...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Television Industry, Social Issues, Forests, Geography
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A current sense of Wonder
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSTEVIE WONDER'S mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, famously co-wrote his hits "I Was Made to Love Her" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours." So after she died last year, Wonder soon realized that there couldn't be a more fitting way to recover than to take...Tags: Death, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco, Dengue Fever, Amy Winehouse
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Brangelina Donates $100 K to Lost Boys
Zap2It.comSudan has become the latest recipient of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's generosity. The Hollywood couple has donated $100,000 to support the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in Southern Sudan, which will be the first modern medical facility that will serve 150,000...Tags: Social Issues, Kung Fu Panda (movie), Hospitals and Clinics, Sudan, Health
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Your scene: A sign of devotion in Cambodia
Beto De Luna of Glendale was sitting at a restaurant in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, one morning in September when he "saw this monk walk up, and [two people] started praying to him. To me, it was a National Geographic moment" that captured the culture of the...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Travel, Trips and Vacations
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Norway's frozen Svalbard is home to a top-of-the-world seed bank
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHigh above the icy fjord, the vault is almost complete. Inside a frozen mountain not far from the North Pole, workers are building three concrete chambers to withstand global warming, floods and fires, wars and nuclear holocaust. This Arctic safe,...Tags: California, Social Issues, Natural Disasters, Employees, Colleges and Universities
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Sustainable boom?
Today, Andrés Martinez and Joseph Farah look at whether a one-party state is sustainable during a long-running boom. Yesterday, they debated whether China poses a military threat to the United States; they've also pondered Chinese imports and the broad...Tags: Communist Party of China, Japan, Foreign Aid, China, Beijing (China)
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Dozens of immigrants among war casualties
![<a href="http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/jose-gutierrez/">Marine Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez</a> was an orphan who made his way to the U.S. from the streets of Guatemala City as a teen. <a href="http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/tung-m-nguyen/">Army Sgt. 1st Class Tung Nguyen</a>, born in Vietnam, was 11 and living in a refugee camp in Thailand when his mother placed him on a rickety boat with the goal of reaching America.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-05/39220509-27155910.jpg "<a href="http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/jose-gutierrez/\">Marine Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez</a> was an orphan who made his way to the U.S. from the streets of Guatemala City as a teen. <a href=\"http://projects.latimes.com/wardead/name/tung-m-nguyen/\">Army Sgt. 1st Class Tung Nguyen</a>, born in Vietnam, was 11 and living in a refugee camp in Thailand when his mother placed him on a rickety boat with the goal of reaching America.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMarine Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez was an orphan who made his way to the U.S. from the streets of Guatemala City as a teen. Army Sgt. 1st Class Tung Nguyen, born in Vietnam, was 11 and living in a refugee camp in Thailand when his mother placed him on a...Tags: California, Tennessee, Restaurants, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Foreign tourism offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at 212-963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or delegation....Tags: South Africa, Fiji, France, Argentina, Norway
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McCain, a warrior, but ...
Sen. John McCain and his campaign surrogates have been making a lot of his military experience lately, hoping to convince Americans that one man's military record versus another's lack of one should determine who would be the best president. The idea...Tags: Trade Agreements, Elections, Social Issues, Employees, Wars and Interventions
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Adolf Eichmann and the hunt for monsters
![On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: "A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was discovered by the Israeli security services. Adolf Eichmann is already under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-04/46406588-20164151.jpg "On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: "A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was discovered by the Israeli security services. Adolf Eichmann is already under arrest in Israel and will shortly be placed on trial.\"")
On May 23, 1960, then- Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium in the Knesset and solemnly said: "A short time ago one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, was discovered by the Israeli security services. Adolf...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Argentina, Adolf Eichmann, Massacres, International Court or Tribunal
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A golden, global evening with chorale
Music CriticSunday night, Walt Disney Concert Hall was full yet it was empty. The Los Angeles Master Chorale performed. But there was no feeling, no perception, no sound. No pure intonation and no impure intonation. No increase in volume and no decrease in volume. It...Tags: Dance, California, San Diego (San Diego, California), Crimes, Walt Disney
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An elusive dream
By Jeremi Suri
The United Nations is the most frustrating international institution. In its charter, its structure and its leadership, it embodies the idealistic ambition to make the world a better place for everyone. What other institution on this...Tags: Social Issues, Hate Crimes, Colleges and Universities, Massacres, Civil and Public Service
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