Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Visitors to the United Kingdom can experience a slice of slum life?albeit a gentrified one?with the opening of the Birmingham Back to Backs museum and holiday cottages...
...opening a chocolate shop and working in a French village seemed so wrong, so un-French. Then I read [Peter Mayle's bestselling] A Year in Provence and noticed that the first word is 'January.' I thought, No! The French year begins in September, when people come back from holiday. So I knew there was a book to be written." Determined to set foreigners straight about his adopted home, Clarke began compiling anecdotes. But he wanted a sexier protagonist than himself, so he opted for fiction and invented Paul West, "a cross between Hugh Grant and David Beckham." He also...
...ARRIVED. 56 CHINESE TOURISTS, the first group to visit Europe on holiday since China began allowing its citizens to take private trips to 27 European countries; in Paris. Up to 400,000 Chinese travel to France each year under business- or family-visit visas, but the number is expected to rise by 30% next year under the new rules. The first group planned to see the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Printemps department store, the Moulin Rouge cabaret, the Palace of Versailles and cruise the Seine in a whirlwind two-day Paris stop before heading to Switzerland by train...
...than 1,000 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian terrorists in the past four years. The security fence has proved to be a deterrent. What would any enlightened society have done if time and again it had been attacked by terrorists who infiltrated its stores, pizza parlors, buses and holiday celebrations to deliberately kill women and children? Wouldn't any society want a security fence? Isn't saving innocent lives worth the inconveniences it causes? The security fence is a nonviolent way to reduce terrorism. RANDY TISCHLER Raanana, Israel...
...over night. It's total chaos." Will the rapprochement between France's Muslims and the rest of society last? Some say that the government should reward the country's Muslims by making Eid al-Adha, the festival marking the end of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, a school holiday. And it could be difficult for Islamic leaders to reverse last week's acceptance of the head-scarf ban once the hostage crisis has passed. As the school year begins, both sides still have a lot to learn...