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...initiative is doing everything it can to urge people to prepare themselves for a busy storm season. In addition to the poll, it has launched an interactive website, a series of public service announcements and a 30-minute television program, The National Hurricane Survival Test, which air throughout hurricane season on more than 50 television and cable network affiliates...
...losing more than he thinks he's gaining. He's losing international recognition and he's losing the respect of his people.' MARCEL GRANIER, executive at RCTV, Venezuela's oldest private television station and a frequent critic of President Hugo Chávez, which went off the air on May 27 after Chávez refused to renew its license...
...BRAZIL $0.20 Cost of a month's supply of birth-control pills, under a proposed subsidy on the contraceptive 150,000 Estimated number of Brazilians who attended an open-air mass with Pope Benedict XVI during his May visit to the world's largest Catholic country; the Pontiff has condemned abortion and contraception...
...noticed that airline ticketing agents have an interesting language when it comes to describing how full a flight is. From my too-frequent air travels, I've learned that being "full" is not absolute. The scale of fullness includes: a somewhat full flight, a full flight and a very full flight. Or, in my very unfortunate case Friday evening of Memorial Day weekend, surrounded by families, extra luggage, strollers, in the middle of travel mayhem - the extremely full flight...
...Only hours after RCTV went off the air, the government was already threatening Globovision, the lone opposition TV holdout. Information minister Willian Lara announced Monday that the government would investigate the channel for allegedly inciting an assassination attempt on Chavez. As evidence, he showed footage of a 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II accompanied by Salsa star Ruben Blades singing "Have faith, this does not stop here." Lara also accused CNN of inciting violence against Chavez and "campaigning against Venezuela" by showing Chavez's image next to a picture of an al-Qaeda leader. On Tuesday...