Word: twins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many Filipinos, the seizure of Channel 4 was one of the most remarkable events of an endlessly astonishing week. Feb. 25 was a day of twin inaugurals. Aquino had wanted a daylight ceremony because, as she said in her address, "it is fitting and proper that, as the rights and liberties of our people were taken away at midnight 14 years ago [when martial law was declared], the people should formally recover those rights and liberties in the full light of day." An hour later Ferdinand Marcos stepped onto the balcony at Malacañang Palace before a crowd...
...young children waiting for them at home. Whatever the reason, the nation was in mourning this week after nine members of a tour group died in a plane crash on their way to the famous Kokoda track in PNG. Five Papua New Guinea nations were also on board the Twin Otter when it collided with a hillside, killing everyone on board on August...
...worst plane crashes in Papua New Guinea's history, theories were circulating about the causes. Some blamed the experience of the 25-year-old pilot, a Papua New Guinea national Jenny Moala who only had 2500 hours flying time. Others speculated that the Airlines PNG twin otter might have experienced a technical problem that showed up when the pilot tried to climb...
...spirited traveler, the safari itself is the key. Our adventure began after our twin-prop touched down at a remote bush landing strip at Kimanjo, deep in Laikipia. From there it was a Land Cruiser ride to our first camp, set beneath acacia and a vast sycamore fig. Here we met the troop in its full glory: 19 camels and 15 Samburu, Turkana and Masai tribesmen. The sense of joining an ancient caravan heading into the bush was heightened by the fact that there would be almost no contact with the outside world for several days...
...haven in Somalia which could then attract al-Qaeda and other terrorist actions, it would be a threat to the U.S." To make the point, Clinton visited the site of the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. Al-Qaeda was believed to have been behind the twin bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi that killed more than 200 people...