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Cincinnati Calling. This ought to make your trip to Ohio a little less painful. Delta SkyMiles members who register at this website and fly before May 13, can earn at least 3,000 bonus miles for their first round-trip flight to or from Cincinnati. Flyers will also earn 10,000 extra miles for their fifth round-trip. The deal applies only to certain routes, including flights to Atlanta, Denver, L.A. and Philly. Check the website for details...
Linked In. With the merger of Delta and Northwest, members of the airlines' frequent-flyer-program - SkyMiles for Delta and WorldPerks for Northwest - can link their accounts and transfer miles between them. Couple the accounts before March 15 and get 500 bonus miles...
...About 100 artists served in the Mekong Delta during the 11-year conflict, tasked with recording battles and creating images that could be used to inspire civilians in the war effort. Sixty-two died in action. Some were regular soldiers as well as artists; others performed no military duties but chose to go on reconnaissance missions and into combat to create their works. Recruits were trained in drawing, and professors from the Hanoi College of Fine Arts traveled the Ho Chi Minh Trail to set up art courses in the Mekong Delta before dispatching their students into battle with sketchbooks...
...ways to work while under fire. Hyunh Phuong Dong perfected the technique of squeezing clumps of paint straight onto paper and adding black outlines later, once he was out of harm's way. "Their bombs cannot bury me," he wrote in a letter to his wife from the Mekong Delta. "I can still work, paint, sing and write to you." Another artist, Pham Thanh Tam, filled empty penicillin vials with paint, which he stored inside Russian-made 12-mm shell casings so that they wouldn't break...
...group. Both Christian and Buddhist, the Karen have been plagued by internal strife between rival factions over the past couple of decades. A general ceasefire framework with the central government is in place but occasional flashpoints of fighting still occur. Karen villagers, who tend to live in the Irrawaddy Delta and in the border region between Burma and Thailand, have been victims of forced relocation and labor programs run by the Burmese military...