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...created in 1947 with the broad authority to conduct foreign intelligence missions. In 1953 the agency orchestrated a coup against Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh that returned the pro-American Shah to power. Over the ensuing decade, it supported coups and assassinations in places such as Guatemala and the Dominican Republic to install leaders considered sympathetic to U.S. interests. Despite this legacy, many Americans were unaware of the CIA's clandestine operations until May 1960, when a U-2 spy plane was downed over the Soviet Union. The folks in Langley, Va., suffered another collective black eye from...
...mothers of these children wore special backpacks containing air-sampling equipment for 48 hours during their third trimester of pregnancy, capturing both indoor and outdoor air quality. Based on the results, they were divided into high-PAH-exposure and low-exposure groups. The mothers were healthy, nonsmoking black and Dominican-American women, ages 18 to 35, living in northern Manhattan and the South Bronx - not far from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, where Perera is a professor. (Read "The Risks [and Rewards] of Pills and Pregnancy...
Family Freebies. Club Med's Kids 15 and Under Stay Free offer is pretty much as it sounds: one child under 15 per paying adult gets a free ride at the all-inclusive Club Med resorts in Sandpiper, Fla.; Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; and Cancún and Ixtapa, Mexico. Access to kids clubs, with their circus schools, magic programs and science activities (for ages 4 and up), is included. Meanwhile, adults can keep busy playing tennis, snorkeling and sailing. Depending on the property, rates start at $145 to $180 per night. Book by June 30 for stays through...
Many hotels in Mexico are accommodating last-minute cancellations without penalty. Iberostar Hotels & Resorts is allowing guests to trade upcoming stays in Mexico for stays at other properties in Jamaica or the Dominican Republic with no change fee, and is not charging guests who elect to leave Mexico early. The InterContinental Hotels Group, which operates the InterContinental in Cancun and the Crowne Plaza in Acapulco, among other properties, is offering to waive cancellation fees for reservations at any of its Mexican properties through...
...Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist from the Dominican Republic who has conducted the digs at Abusir for the past three years, told reporters that she wants "to be Cleopatra's lawyer," and prove there is much more to the ancient potentate than the work of two thousands years of Western male imagination. Debates still rage over everything from Cleopatra's identity - cranial scans of her half-sister's skull this year suggested she may be African, though her known lineage was Greek - to her looks. Close scrutiny of coin portraits have led some to believe that she was rather plain...