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| | | | | Not long ago, I was very kindly invited to Buckingham Palace, as a member of Britain's food industry. Hundreds of very smart foodies turned up, having showered, shaved and left behind their stoves, whisks and knives. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A person who dies a violent and newsmaking death is often destined to be defined by a brief label. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A top North Korean general offered Sunday to help return the remains of several hundred U.S. troops killed during the Korean War, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A crew commander was killed and 15 passengers were injured when a helicopter crashed on the Russian Arctic island of Yamal, state media reported Sunday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Europe's busiest airports are cancelling hundreds of flights Sunday in the face of "freak weather conditions" after several inches of snow were dumped on the continent over the weekend. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Voters in Belarus head to the polls Sunday to cast their ballots in presidential elections. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The body of a female tourist missing since Saturday was found outside Jerusalem on Sunday morning, an Israeli police spokesman said. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Eight people were seriously injured when a tour bus carrying a church group lost control, slid off the road and rolled onto its side on an icy highway in Colorado, authorities said. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A helicopter rescue crew airlifted five people from a sinking fishing boat off the Alaska coast, the Coast Guard said. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A political standoff has forced nearly 4,000 citizens of northwest Ivory Coast to flee to neighboring countries, prompting fears of regional insecurity, according to the United Nations. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The tensions that have swept Ivory Coast show no signs of abating as incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo ordered U.N. peacekeeping forces out of the country on Saturday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The United Nations has said it will keep its peacekeepers in Ivory Coast despite a directive ordering them out from the west African nation's disputed president, Laurent Gbagbo. | | | | | |
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| | | | | At least nine people were feared dead Sunday when a fire razed a hotel in northern Philippines, according to the nation's official media. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Seven Afghan soldiers and one national police officer were killed in separate attacks on Sunday, officials said. | | | | | |
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| | | | | New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson provided North Korea with a series of proposals Saturday in what he described as a "good meeting" with the country's chief nuclear negotiator. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Cuban President Raul Castro told legislators Saturday that the country's economy would undergo significant change in the coming year, but added that the measures aimed to bolster socialism -- not make Cuba a capitalist nation. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook parts of Indonesia Sunday morning, including areas decimated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2004. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Oil and gas prices in Iran could rise starting Sunday, as the government initiates the latest phase of a subsidy regulation initiative aimed at bolstering the nation's struggling economy. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A blast of harsh winter weather socked Europe Saturday morning, causing travel chaos and sending temperatures into a deep-freeze. | | | | | |
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| | | | | An Israeli military strike killed five Palestinians in central Gaza on Saturday night, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency reported. | | | | | |
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| | | | | While city rivals Inter were winning the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, Serie A leaders AC Milan crashed to a 1-0 home defeat to AS Roma on Saturday night. | | | | | |
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| | | | | At least 32 people are dead and many more are missing after a passenger boat capsized on a river in northeastern Bangladesh, the country's news agency reported on Saturday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Barcelona guaranteed they will go into Spain's mid-winter break as leaders of La Liga after a thumping 5-1 win over Catalan rivals Espanyol on Saturday night. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Members of the U.S. Senate voted down an amendment Saturday that would have taken out language that recognizes a relationship between offensive and defensive weapons from the preamble of the New START treaty, the proposed nuclear arms treaty with Russia. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A high-ranking New York priest has been found guilty by a church tribunal of sexually abusing a minor in the 1970s, according to a statement obtained Saturday from the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. | | | | | |
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| | | | | International officials have asked Haitian President Rene Preval to delay the announcement of final election results which were due to be out Monday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Inter Milan beat African underdogs TP Mazembe 3-0 to win FIFA's Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | President Barack Obama on Saturday signed a short-term spending bill that will fund the government through Tuesday night. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Borussia Dortmund lost 1-0 at Eintracht Frankfurt to miss the chance to set a Bundesliga record for the most points gathered at the halfway mid-winter break. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The Senate voted Saturday to proceed to a final vote to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bans openly | | | | | |
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| | | | | American Amanda Knox won a major victory Saturday in her appeal of the murder conviction in the death of her British roommate when an Italian appellate judge granted approval of independent forensic reviews on two key pieces of evidence. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A bill that offers a path to citizenship to some illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children failed a procedural vote in the Senate on Saturday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Ernie Els lived up to his 'Big Easy' nickname with an imperious second round 65 to lead the South African Open in Durban by two strokes at the halfway stage. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on Saturday ordered all U.N. peacekeeping forces out of the country a day after Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called on the disputed re-election winner to step down. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The death toll in Friday's three drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal region has gone up to 57, intelligence officials in Pakistan told CNN on Saturday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Iran's nuclear chief was installed as the country's acting foreign minister on Saturday after the country's longtime top diplomat was ousted in a power play. | | | | | |
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| | | | | I'm not a Christian, but like many Jews, I've envied Christmas since childhood. I like the twinkly lights, pink-cheeked carolers, heartwarming television specials, and exuberantly ho-ho-ho-ing Santa Clauses ... pretty much everything except the endless renditions of "Jingle Bells" warbling from every audio speaker in the country. | | | | | |
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| | | | | In a weekend of last-minute voting ahead of the holidays, the Senate is expected to vote Saturday to end debate on the historic "don't ask, don't tell" repeal, another step toward the passage of the contentious legislation. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A Chinese fishing boat and a South Korean Coast Guard vessel collided Saturday, killing one fisherman, South Korea's official news agency reported. | | | | | |
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| | | | | German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit to Afghanistan on Saturday, two days after Germany's top diplomat announced a planned reduction in troop levels and a day after one of its soldiers died. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Iraq moved a couple of steps closer Saturday to forming a government after a maddening year marked by political squabbling and paralysis. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Australia are poised to win the third Test and level the Ashes series after England slumped to 81 for five wickets by stumps on the third day in Perth, chasing 391 for victory. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A man suspected of killing a migrant from Kyrgyzstan and leading recent riots that drew thousands in Moscow has been arrested, state media reported. | | | | | |
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| | | | | State and federal authorities in Mexico traded barbs over the escape of 141 inmates from a border city prison as police stepped up security and searched for convicts on the run. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Eight people were killed after a truck carrying firecracker materials exploded in Hunan province, China's Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | NATO's International Security Assistance Force announced a servicemember died after an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan Saturday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A sprinkler system in a California mall was turned off for more than an hour during a fire that devastated a California mall, a new report states. | | | | | |
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| | | | | European Union leaders threatened sanctions against the Ivory Coast and said members of the country's military should support Alassan Ouatarra, who international officials say won the presidency. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A Florida school board member who rose to fame after she tried to stop a gunman with her purse has put her handbag up for sale, though it apparently has been removed from an online auction site. | | | | | |
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| | | | | In a coastal city south of Boston, a community often known for its veterans is grappling with the loss of four young men who died this year while on active military duty. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The administration's top counterterrorism adviser said Friday that the al Qaeda group based in Yemen poses a greater threat to Americans than Osama bin Laden's group based in Pakistan. | | | | | |
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| | | | | At least 141 inmates escaped Friday from a prison in Mexico's northeast border city of Nuevo Laredo, Notimex reported, citing an official. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A blast of harsh winter weather socked Europe Friday, causing travel chaos and sending temperatures into the deep-freeze. | | | | | |
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| | | | | New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Saturday he is concerned about escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, where he is urging "maximum" restraint ahead of scheduled military exercises. | | | | | |
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| | | | | For King Midas, as the Greek legend goes, everything he touches turns to gold. Yahoo's stroke is decidedly less effective. | | | | | |
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| | | | | President Barack Obama signed an $858 billion tax bill into law Friday, saying, "this is progress, and that's what (the American people) sent us here to achieve." | | | | | |
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| | | | | Federal agents have arrested a California man who allegedly attempted to export a U.S. military fighter jet to Iran, authorities announced Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A California couple has been charged with murdering a woman whose infant son was later found abandoned on a doorstep, police said. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Veteran claims for medical benefits are still piled high at the Veterans Affairs Department, despite a major push from the secretary of the department for quicker claims processing. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Venezuela's lame-duck National Assembly has granted President Hugo Chavez the power to pass laws by decree for the next 18 months, the website of state-run Venezuelan Television reported Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A Virginia man was arraigned Friday on charges he abducted a 12-year-old girl whose mother was later found dead and took her across the country before being spotted outside a San Francisco supermarket. | | | | | |
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| | | | | One of the stars of MTV's "Jersey Shore" is facing an aggravated assault charge stemming from an incident in the reality show's first season, according to an indictment unsealed Friday in New Jersey. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Five years after cracking up audiences as an electronics store clerk in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," actor Shelley Malil learned his fate Friday after his conviction for repeatedly stabbing his former girlfriend. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Investigators are looking into whether the strangulation death of a 27-year-old woman is linked to a series of recent attacks on females in a central Philadelphia neighborhood, police say. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The Obama Administration and South Korea have established contingency communication plans in the event North Korea retaliates against the south for holding military exercises, a U.S. military official said Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | "Tron: Evolution" tries to bridge the time gap between the classic movie and the new version, but it sometimes lets gameplay and combat fall into a time loop that is exciting but repetitive. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened Friday to seize all Western-owned investments in the country unless their governments remove targeted sanctions imposed on him and his senior ZANU-PF party members. | | | | | |
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| | | | | A sweeping food safety bill that passed the House and Senate earlier this year before stalling because of a legislative technicality now will likely die because Republicans object to giving it quick approval in the waning days of the congressional session, Senate leadership aides on both sides of the aisle said Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Friday that the House Rules Committee will weigh a short-term spending bill that would fund the government until Tuesday night. | | | | | |
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| | | | | You've got enough to do over the holidays. Don't spend hours sitting on the side of the road with car trouble. | | | | | |
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| | | | | An American relief worker in Haiti has been jailed while investigators there look into an accusation that he kidnapped a 15-month-old boy, a U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | At least seven Yemeni troops have been killed in two attacks in the southern part of the country, Yemeni officials said Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Boxer Floyd Mayweather was arrested at a Las Vegas casino on a misdemeanor battery charge after he allegedly assaulted a security guard at his housing complex, a police official said Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Ryan Lochte of the United States broke his second world record and claimed his third gold at the world short course swimming championships in Dubai on Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | They say Michael Vick is trying to redeem himself. The NFL superstar who participated in a dog-fighting ring that shot, electrocuted, drowned and slammed dogs to the ground now wants to bring home a dog as a pet. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Federal authorities were investigating Friday the circumstances of a Mexican drone crash in El Paso, Texas, this week. | | | | | |
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| | | | | U.S. security is "particularly vigilant" to terror threats over the holidays, the president's counterterrorism adviser said Friday, striking a confident note that the United States is ready. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The Justice Department has decided not to seek an expedited Supreme Court review of a ruling striking down the "individual mandate" provision in the sweeping health care reform bill, a government source told CNN Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | From elementary-school plays to plastic Joseph and Mary figures on lawns, the holiday season brings all kinds of re-enactments of the birth of Jesus. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Investigators in Los Angeles say they've gotten a strong response since they asked for the public's help in identifying women in 180 photographs whose images were found in a suspected serial killer's home this summer. | | | | | |
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| | | | | It's often assumed that older people generally aren't very digitally savvy -- but new research from Pew indicates that older people are becoming about as skilled online as younger ones. | | | | | |
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| | | | | U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called Friday for Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo to step down and said that "any other outcome would make a mockery of democracy." | | | | | |
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| | | | | Four key GOP senators who have announced their support of a "don't ask, don't tell" repeal are prepared to join Democrats in voting to let the bill proceed, as long as Congress first deals with a measure to fund the government, aides to the four said Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Nobody likes paying taxes, but American culture seems to increasingly treat taxation as a something close to a crime committed by the ruling class. | | | | | |
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| | | | | An international scientific panel will investigate the cause of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Friday. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The U.S. diplomatic cables obtained and released by WikiLeaks frequently rely on unnamed sources for delicate information. But one such source -- a businessman in Mozambique -- has furiously denied making remarks about high-level corruption attributed to him by a U.S. diplomat. | | | | | |
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| | | | | It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Washington. Call it bipartisanship, political necessity or a burning desire to get home for the holidays. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Rescuers in southeastern Iran are working to free three coal miners trapped after a mine collapse earlier this week, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported, citing a local government official. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Retief Goosen and Alex Cejka led the way with eight-under 64s as a clutch of big names jostled for the lead after the first round of the rain-hit South African Open in Durban. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The CIA has recalled its top spy in Pakistan out of concern for his safety after terrorist threats against him, a U.S. intelligence official said. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The instant popularity of AMC's "The Walking Dead" this year has brought new attention to a growing trend on television: Scenes that would usually be reserved for some of the most violent horror movies are popping up more and more in prime time. | | | | | |
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| | | | | The instant popularity of AMC's "The Walking Dead" this year has brought new attention to a growing trend on television: Scenes that would usually be reserved for some of the most violent horror movies are popping up more and more in prime time. | | | | | |
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| | | | | On Friday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said the Senate is prepared to vote on a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. | | | | | |
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| | | | | City dwellers in search of an oasis of calm need look no further than the "Bota Bota" -- a former ferry turned floating health spa. | | | | | |
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| | | | | Sixteen-year-old Valery Bianco and his 13-year-old sister Marina Bianco take extra care in preparing and wrapping their shoe box gifts for "Operation Christmas Child." | | | | | |
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