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What in the World?

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Here’s what going on around the world this week. The U.S. The BP oil spill, while slowly getting under control (so it seems, at least), is likely to plague the Gulf well into fall, and maybe even longer. Engineers were finally able to fit a cap onto the gusher, which is allowing them to capture [...]

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What in the World?

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Like I’ve mentioned before, I work at a newspaper, and, consequently, read a lot of news stories every day. Since a lot of the goings-on in other parts of the world end up affecting things like travel, I thought it might be neat to do a weekly post summing up what’s going on across the [...]

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