Word: kingdoms
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...seems that, this year, thousands of other Patriots fans felt exactly as I did. At Disney World where I vacationed this week with my family, it appeared they had floated Gillette Stadium south from Foxboro to Florida, and docked it next to the ferry boats at the Magic Kingdom landing. I realize that any observer is more attuned to recognizing his own, but everywhere I turned there was a red, white and blue World Champions or Super Bowl T-shirt, a Pats sweatshirt or cap, or a mix-and-match outfit: Pats shirt, Bosox cap, or vice versa. Evidently when...
...Tuesday found us back at the Magic Kingdom, where six-year-old Caroline continued the roller-coaster progress she had begun on Sunday. This second round of sessions would see her and cousin Evie riding ?Big Thunder Mountain Railway? no fewer than three times, the third by themselves with hands raised the whole way. Caroline would not try ?Splash Mountain? again after the harrowing experience two days earlier, but did say, ?Maybe next year when I?m seven.? Which seems to indicate we?re coming back to Disney next year. My skis seem headed for the annual spring tag sale...
...Tomorrow - well, today, as the clock just struck midnight in this sleeping house - back to the Magic Kingdom. I?ll let you know how it ends, but it has begun beautifully. As I did with the Sox but didn?t with the Pats, I would have lost some money betting on this...
...game in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They would produce in Switzerland a detailed agreement of about 60 pages, with detailed attached maps, that would give clear and specific solutions on all issues. I participated actively in the initiation of this process and in numerous negotiations in the United Kingdom, France and Switzerland, first as an individual and, since April 2003, as special representative of the Swiss government for the Middle East peace process. I was also asked by the parties to help them broaden the circle of the potential signatories...
...type of influenza might be afflicting its poultry but did not yet have the means to test. Both Japan and Taiwan have intercepted shipments of tainted duck meat from the mainland in the past year. Kim Sun Jwong, an avian-diseases expert at Seoul National University, believes the Middle Kingdom is the most likely provenance of Korea's H5N1 outbreak. And live chickens are also frequently traded along China's border with Vietnam. If China is seeding these outbreaks, then greater cooperation from mainland officials is essential to plugging the microbial...