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Xtine posted Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face | 2 days ago
By NINA BERNSTEIN The New York Times Published: May 14, 2008 He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. She was “a totally Virginia girl,” as she puts it, raised across the road from George Washington’s home. Their romance, sparked by a 2006 meeting in a...
Xtine posted Horses abandoned in West as feed prices rise | 3 days ago
Tue May 13, 2008 By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - In the classic Hollywood western, a cowboy portrayed by John Wayne gallops across the sagebrush steppe and rocky ridges of the American West with only his horse for a companion. What the films don't show is the cowboy buying and hauling...
Xtine posted Texas authorities investigate more polygamy charges | 4 days ago
By ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press Writer 13 May 2008 CLYDE, Texas (AP) -- Behind guarded, ornate gates at the end of a rural road, a self-proclaimed prophet warns his followers about the end of time and rails against a dangerous and unclean world outside their West Texas compound. The women are...
Xtine posted NY man sues US airline over flight spent in toilet | 4 days ago
by Edith Honan May 12, 2008 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extreme humiliation." When Gokhan Mutlu arrived to check in...
