Year Of The Dragon News
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Hello, Yeti, Scoot and More Airlines You've Never Heard Of
Busy Bee, Flamingo, Velvet Sky and Birdy have gone to the great hangar in the sky, but there's other airlines you've never heard of
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Today in Pictures: Jan. 23, 2012
Students and those in the community gather around the statue of Joe Paterno, the former Penn State football coach who died earlier in the morning, outside Beaver Stadium on the campus of Penn State, Jan. 22, 2012 in State College, Pennsylvania. Paterno, who was 85,...
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Auspicious Beginnings: More Babies Born During Year of Dragon
Monday is Chinese New Year, and it marks the beginning of the year of the dragon, which only comes around every 12 years. In Chinese culture, it is considered good fortune to be born during the year of the dragon, and so many mothers are...
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Today in Pictures: Jan. 19, 2012
A Raramuri Indian woman of the Tarahumara Mountains waits to have her children treated at a clinic in the town of Carichi, northern Mexico, Jan. 18, 2012. A severe drought has place many indigenous communities in the region under severe stress and the Mexican Red...
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Today In Pictures: Jan. 6, 2011
Markus Windisch of Italy, skis through a heavy snowstorm during the men’s 4 x 7.5 km relay at the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, Germany, Jan. 5, 2012. Italy won the competition. (Jens Meyer/AP Photo) Beggars, with their arms outstretched, ask for alms from...
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China's Scary-Looking Dragon Stamp Sparks Debate
On Jan. 5 every year in China, a commemorative stamp of the corresponding year’s Chinese Zodiac character is released to celebrate the coming lunar New Year. It is an event not unlike the unveiling of new pair of Air Jordans. “People started lining up outside the post office around 4 a.m.,” Ms.
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The Global Note: Baghdad Burns…Mubarak To Hang?…The Global "One Percent"…$736,000 Tuna
U.S. GONE, BAGHDAD ERUPTS – AGAIN And once again the violence appears driven by sectarian differences. A wave of explosions struck two Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad and then pilgrims in the South Thursday, killing at least 57 people and intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping...
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Today in Pictures: Dec. 27, 2011
A girl goes up the escalators at Comuna 13 neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia, Dec. 26, 2011, the day of their inauguration. The escalators are the first of their kind to be installed in a shantytown with high rates of urban violence. It is a system...
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2001 Arrives Around The World
Much of the world welcomed 2001 with fireworks, good cheer and optimism, and even in troubled lands the hope of a better future prevailed. Yugoslavias celebrations, the first since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic, were dubbed the first free New Year, temple bells tolled in Japan and tens of
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2001 Arrives Around The World
Much of the world welcomed 2001 with fireworks, good cheer and optimism, and even in troubled lands the hope of a better future prevailed. Yugoslavias celebrations, the first since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic, were dubbed the first free New Year, temple bells tolled in Japan and tens of