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...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...
...authors of the new report say targeted measures are needed to tackle poverty and unemployment in the poorest regions, but they admit there's no magic bullet. As the recession bites ever deeper, and with a general election coming in September, German policymakers will have to wake up to the nation's growing poverty problems - and fast...
Hurricanes and housing busts have already battered South Florida's image as an earthly paradise. But Miami's reputation for dysfunction is on display again this spring as the Obama Administration shifts health-care reform into high gear - and a spate of studies slams the Magic City as the poster child for exorbitant medical costs. This week the Milliman Medical Cost Index listed the 2008 average private-provider costs for a Miami family of four - $20,282 - as the highest among the 14 major U.S. cities it studied, adding that more than 40% of that amount came out of Miamians...
...enough storytelling vigor and sheen convince any critic, including those who thought von Trier went off the rails with his Dogville and Manderlay epics, that, hey, the guy can make a normal movie, and with the highest skill. There are visions here worth savoring, pure von Trier weirdo-magic, like the sight of Gainsbourg lying on the forest ground, willing herself to blend with the green. Through simple grace notes - photos from the previous summer of the boy's shoes put on the wrong feet, and, in one of several allusions to The Shining, a thesis notebook whose pages reveal...
...paintball fans complain that the proposed laws are heavy-handed, some politicians claim the measures are shortsighted, warning that tighter gun legislation isn't a quick fix to tackling gun crime. "There isn't a magic formula to prevent a killing spree," says Dieter Wiefelspuetz, interior policy spokesman for the Social Democrats. "The biggest challenge is to examine why some young men turn violent when they grow...