Word: travels
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...grant money, including apparent diversions of funds to support the ALG program. Investigators also released documents suggesting that Najarian sometimes cheated on his expense accounts. Seven years ago, for instance, he allegedly asked the corporate sponsor of a conference held in Stockholm to reimburse him for $4,122 in travel charges after submitting a bill to the university claiming a similar amount...
...article also states that "Israel proceeded to carry out one of the most stable transitions into democratic statehood...in January of 1949 [Israel] extend[ed] votes and citizenship rights equally to all, including its substantial Arab minority." Yet until after 1956, Palestinians living in Israel needed to obtain travel permits in order to leave their towns. In South Africa, this is known as apartheid. What kind of democracy discriminates against some of its people based on race...
...subtle strengths of this novel that it quietly subverts the note of tropical passion and romance that it initially seems to promise. Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation, and his experience-his worldliness-endows the pages of this book with the reek of authenticity: the novel is dense and pungent with perfect detail. This same worldliness provides the undercurrent of cool reality about people's lives, their impossible dreams and inevitable disappointments, that makes Cuba and the Night the most promising and beguiling of fiction debuts...
...Russia for 50 years [April 3], it overlooked an important piece of information. The Hermitage invited an American publisher to document the collection with both Russian- and English-language editions of a book, Hidden Treasures Revealed, and to arrange for its sale. The exhibition of exceptional art will not travel outside Russia, so the book becomes the only opportunity for most people to see all 74 works in reproductions of the highest quality and with the benefit of scholarship that art historians expect will forever alter the public's perception of several of the artists...
Thanks to a new recycling program, kicked off yesterday at the Back Bay Station, the 115,000 commuters who now travel through the 12 stations will be able to recycle their newspapers rather than throw them away...