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...kept their crown as the world's most troublesome tourists provoked a collective Gallic shriek. "The French Are the Worst Tourists on Earth," blared the website for Libération above a story on this year's survey. "Do French Tourists Abroad Do Their Country Honor?" radio-news station France Info asked as it invited listeners to debate the survey's findings online. (The consensus? Not really, though despite the poll's contention, forum posters concurred that few tourists of any nationality ever impress locals as model visitors...
...Moved to the Los Angeles radio station KRLA in 1963 so that he could be near Hollywood and pursue a career in acting as well as radio. Went on to appear in several movies, including The Girls from Thunder Strip (1966), The Glory Stompers (1967), Scream Free! (1969), 2000 Years Later (1969), The Cycle Savages (1970) and The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant...
...country's 35 provinces. A delay in the elections is unlikely given the tens of millions of dollars that have been spent preparing for the event. Logistics in the sprawling archipelago are daunting, with some voters having to walk miles to reach the nearest polling station. (Watch a video about a destructive mud volcano in Indonesia...
...since local lines will take all day. However, because these trains are apparently very popular, rail pass holders must pay an additional fee to reserve a seat (anywhere from 3 to 45 Euros and up). Most trains require a reservation, and it has to be done at a train station, not online. The timetable that comes with the pass isn’t very useful either –the train station agent had to explain to me that she only had two itineraries for the day I planned to travel (I think she thought I was being very demanding...
...journalists were cast in lead roles. "The day after the elections, CNN started a 24-hour psychological war room against Iran," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hassan Qashqavi told a moderator with seeming outrage on Iranian state TV. Later in the program, the host said he had heard the Saudi-owned station al-Arabiya had even taught Iranian viewers how to build Molotov cocktails for use in protests. Iran's pro-government newspaper Kayhan wrote that foreign media outlets had employed Iranians in the past years, some with foreign nationalities, "in order to facilitate relations between domestic and foreign anti-revolutionary forces...