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...city's major museums have reopened, and its big-name restaurants have either reopened or announced plans to do so this fall. Popular tourist attractions like the Aquarium of the Americas and Audubon Zoo are up and running, and the cruise ships that use New Orleans as a home port - and carry more than 700,000 passengers a year - will be back in service by the end of 2006. "We're back in business," says Kelly Schulz, vice president of communications for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. "A lot of people out there are thinking that...
...succeeded only in creating more Islamic militants. What Israel is doing in Lebanon can be equated with terrorism. The U.S. must always lead by example and show the world that it has a soul. America's defense of freedom and human rights should not be selective. Obiora Muanya Port Harcourt, Nigeria...
...take a spot that had opened on Armed Services. She was one of the first in Congress to point out that U.S. forces in Iraq lack the armor they need. After 9/11, she became one of the Senate's loudest voices on homeland security, pointing to lapses in port inspections and voicing early criticism of border protection. She counts as her biggest accomplishment her role in securing $20 billion in aid for her state in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. More recently, she has taken a lead role in the fight to increase the minimum wage, proposing...
...kids will love the All Star Bird Show at the park's amphitheater. BANGKOK Situated about 40 km southwest of Bangkok, Khok Kham is home to a great number of shorebirds, drawn by the area's mud flats as well as the salt pans at the nearby fishing port of Samut Sakhon. Look out for the spoon-billed sandpiper and Nordmann's greenshank, both classified as globally threatened. A log book at the local Bird Centre contains reports of sightings and current locations of nests...
...About 100,000-150,000 tons of oil is spilled into the Mediterranean every year from accidents and operational dumping by ships, according to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council, which monitors ocean oil spills. Industrial waste, too, pollutes the waters. Egyptians have long called their port city, Alexandria, the jewel of the Mediterranean, but it has lately earned another reputation as "the outstanding champion of pollution," according to Mifsud. Factories dump waste water into the port's bays and into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from...