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...government from receiving diplomatic recognition or participating in many international forums. Both sides armed the Taiwan Strait to the teeth, turning it into one of Asia's most dangerous military flash points. Contact between them has been grossly restricted. A year ago, Taiwan residents couldn't take a scheduled flight or mail a letter directly to the mainland, and Taiwan-made goods had to be trans-shipped through Hong Kong and Japan...
...think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on OxyContin, he missed his flight.' Comedian WANDA SYKES, slamming the conservative radio host at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Limbaugh publicly admitted in 2003 that he had battled an addiction to prescription painkillers...
...selling them to friends and co-workers and campaigned for the red flowers to become an official memorial emblem. The American Legion embraced the symbol in 1921, and the tradition has spread to more than 50 other countries, including England, France and Australia. (Watch TIME's video "An 'Honor Flight' for WWII Vets...
...Tokyo patients, two 16-year-old girls who attend the same private high school, contracted H1N1, the swine flu virus, while participating in the Model United Nations at U.N. headquarters in New York City. The two roomed together and sat next to each other on a Continental airlines flight that returned them to Narita International Airport on May 19. One girl, from the Hachioji district in western Tokyo, was feverish on the flight but a quarantine test showed her to be negative for the new flu. A test taken Wednesday night at a Hachioji hospital confirmed H1N1. Her classmate...
...took some arm-twisting. One Colombian legislator traveling in Taiwan was ordered aboard a flight back to Bogotá so he could cast his vote. Up until the last minute, government envoys prowled the aisles and cajoled lawmakers on the floor of the Colombian Senate. But in the end, they delivered for President Alvaro Uribe. By a lopsided 62-to-5 vote - with the opposition walking out in protest - senators on Tuesday approved a bill paving the way for a referendum to amend the constitution and allow Uribe to run for an unprecedented third term...