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Shuttle Discovery Crew Glad To Be Back On Ground

  • June
  • 16

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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab.
Kelly and his crew accomplished everything they set out to do in orbit. They delivered and installed Japan’s Kibo lab, now [...]

Sex Tourism And Children

  • May
  • 19

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No money to vacation? Kick back for a staycation

  • April
  • 8

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AMELIA, OHIO - All through the months that the cold and wind and wet left this southeast suburb of Cincinnati shivering, Megan and Keith Licursi eagerly looked forward to their annual spring vacation: a road trip to see family and bask in the sunshine of Orlando, Fla.
But with gas prices forecast to climb as high [...]

Ordinary families make history too

  • January
  • 27

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Denver student Jesus Martinez once viewed Cinco de Mayo as a fiesta that mainly signaled the approach of summer vacation.
Then, last year for a school assignment, he interviewed his grandmother about her grandfather, a soldier wounded at the 1862 Battle of Puebla. Abruptly, the May 5 celebrations took on a new significance.
“That changed [...]

Ordinary families make history too

  • January
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Denver student Jesus Martinez once viewed Cinco de Mayo as a fiesta that mainly signaled the approach of summer vacation.
Then, last year for a school assignment, he interviewed his grandmother about her grandfather, a soldier wounded at the 1862 Battle of Puebla. Abruptly, the May 5 celebrations took on a new significance.
“That changed [...]

Trip to Siena changes everything

  • December
  • 14

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Love Falls
By Esther Freud
HARPER PERENNIAL; 304 PAGES; $13.95 PAPERBACK
In her new novel, “Love Falls,” British author Esther Freud adroitly explores the turbulent emotional life of a teenage girl, while taking up her running themes of family and place from her past books of fiction (”Hideous Kinky,” “Summer at Gaglow”). What begins as a pleasant adventure [...]

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