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...amazing gold in them thar tourists became evident, Asia greedily tore down barriers to foreign travel. Over a decade, China went from being a xenophobic recluse to a tourism junkie . Vietnam pursued a parallel course; visas for travel there, formerly very difficult to obtain, were suddenly not a problem. The Western boom in Thai cuisine and a massive promotional campaign made the Thai kingdom a hot destination; the buoyant rise of tourism in Bali in the early 1990s encouraged the building of resorts in new destinations in the Indonesian archipelago, such as in neighboring Lombok. Even creepy Burma tried...
...thought [denying our request] was very suspicious,” Reardon said. “Over the course of the summer, several editors and I have continued conversations regarding the possibility of a legal route to obtain the requested information...
...done with great fanfare--there would have been no need for the conflict. And Bush's new press secretary, Scott McClellan, said no fewer than nine times in a briefing last week that the Administration had fully "addressed" the questions surrounding Bush's assertion that Saddam had tried to obtain yellowcake uranium from Africa. But the questions kept coming...
...former Administration official who worked with Joseph at the NSC describes him less charitably as "an ideologue." But it is his version of how those 16 words made it into the State of the Union that some Republican members of the House and Senate intelligence committees are eager to obtain under oath. That has become especially interesting now that Tenet reportedly acknowledged when he testified last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee that the questionable line in the text had not been brought to his attention. The White House, however, doesn't like the idea of Joseph's heading...
...drove his car through a crowded farmer's market on a closed street, killing 10 people and injuring up to 45 (related story). In the aftermath of the incident, many questions have been raised about the safety record of older drivers and whether any additional requirements are needed to obtain a driver's license. How should states deal with the licensing of older drivers...