"Today is Monday, Nov. 13, the 317th day of 2006. There are 48 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
Fifty years ago, on Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down laws calling for racial segregation on public city and state buses, almost a year after Rosa...
"According to nonprofit consumer education organization the Myvesta Foundation, the average American planned to spend $2,249 on his or her summer vacation last year. Taking the average family of four to the archetypical American vacation spot -- Disney World -- can cost...
"According to nonprofit consumer education organization the Myvesta Foundation, the average American planned to spend $2,249 on his or her summer vacation last year. Taking the average family of four to the archetypical American vacation spot -- Disney World -- can cost...
"Police in Germany are hunting pranksters who have been sticking miniature flag portraits of George W. Bush into piles of dog poo in public parks.
"This has been going on for about a year now, and there must be...
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"Sure, the 350,000 or so spectators gathered at Vancouver's beaches and parks Wednesday night may have had a better view of the Czech Republic's fireworks lighting up the sky.
But members of the Horsefield family...
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Seven years after the old growth forests of Clayoquot Sound were protected and internationally recognized as a UN Biosphere Reserve, the deal that guaranteed its future has been swept aside to allow the logging...
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As a heat wave sinks its teeth into much of North America and Europe, here is a short photo essay offering present and past looks at several once mighty glaciers in Alaska.
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"With temperatures soaring into the mid-90s this week, New York is starting to feel like one big panini press. Heat radiates from the sun, the ground, and the exhaust-spouting cars. Subway stations have become...
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"The lush landscape and exclusivity of Gramercy Park has long made outsiders green with envy. Homes in this secluded portion just north of Manhattan’s Union Square East (East 17th Street to East 22nd Street) are...
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"VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Canada unveiled a 16 million-acre preserve Tuesday, including parkland covering an area twice the size of Yellowstone, teeming with grizzly bears, wolves and wild salmon in the ancestral home...
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