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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- With the shuttle Discovery safely away from the International Space Station, a Russian Soyuz
Disney World is like giving birth. It's a really painful experience, but you have to do it once for your kids. But it has a lot in common with one of my favorite places to visit -- Las Vegas.
In all my travels I have never received a welcome like the one I got in Egypt. iIt's been a long, long time since I've been greeted with such heart-felt enthusiasm, simply because I was an American.
I've avoided satirizing, opinionizing, or otherwise making public noise about the Middle East. So this is not an opinion, or a satire. Just a question.
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When tourism has taken a self-inflicted battering, the temptation might be to have a drink to drown your sorrows. Thailand
During these tough times, a few of my recently downsized friends have optimistically referred to their layoffs as extra vacation
After 9/11, I thought it was wrong to close the Crown; the Statue of Liberty is the first image of America for millions of immigrants, and for untold millions it is the iconic symbol of the US.
I don't know if it's my pale skin, but my passport is just as blue and Cuban as the one he has. If not for his false impression that I'm a foreigner, he'd never come close to me.
The golden advertisements that show a Cuba of mulattas, rum, music and dancing will not be able to hide the panorama of collapsing buildings, frustration and inertia. .
Forming a true African union is a concept that has been talked about for several years, but it may be an idea whose time has come, at least in economic terms.