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Hiking Italy's Dolomites is challenging and beautiful
CORTINA D' AMPEZZO, Italy — Hiking up a road should be simple, right? It's relatively wide, so you're not apt to step off and tumble down the mountain. It's relatively smooth, so you're not likely to stumble. So why am I stopping for a...
Tags: Italy, Travel, Mountains, Germany, Trips and Vacations
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A Mexican Renaissance
Mexican culture permeates Los Angeles. Part of the Republic of Mexico from 1821 to 1848, L.A. is now home to more than 1.2 million Mexican Americans. By night, a brilliant 158-mile ribbon of lights connects L.A., literally and symbolically, to the...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Mexico, Cinco de Mayo, Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Billionaire Bucket List
If you’re as rich as Carlos Slim, if you live off the interest on your interest, or if starring in this year’s megahit movie has simply exhausted you, these are the world’s ultimate luxury getaways — a champagne bucket list for...
Tags: Travel, Italy, Trips and Vacations, Dining and Drinking, Hotels and Accommodations
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U.S. effort for Mideast talks elicits praise, reservations
JERUSALEM — Wrapping up his fourth Holy Land trip in three months, Secretary of State John F. Kerry voiced optimism Thursday that his low-profile campaign to relaunch U.S.-brokered peace talks is making headway. But although the top American...
Tags: Palestinian National Authority, National Government, John Kerry, Condoleezza Rice, Palestine
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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say
When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...
Tags: Theft, University of California, Los Angeles, The Getty, Colleges and Universities, Asia
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Mexico trying to stop antiquities sale at Sotheby's in Paris
Another antiquities auction has turned into another international art dispute. This time it’s the sale, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Sotheby’s in Paris, of the Barbier-Mueller Collection of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico and Central...
Tags: Theft, National Government, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Artists, Arts
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Metropolitan Museum says it will return Cambodian statues
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return two ancient statues to Cambodia after receiving convincing evidence they had been looted and smuggled out of the country illegally. The 10th century Khmer statues, known as the Kneeling Attendants,...
Tags: Arts, Cambodia, Auction Service, Museums, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
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Letters: Hawaii issue sets memories afloat
Mahalo nui loa ("thank you very much") for the Special Hawaii Issue [April 21]. Fabulous memories of several visits to the islands in paradise were made vivid by the stories, pictures and maps of Oahu, Molokai and the cruise with stops at the Big Island,...Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Hotels and Accommodations, Lifestyle and Leisure, Cuba
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Mexico: AeroMexico to fly new route from LAX to La Paz
It will be easier to get from Los Angeles to La Paz, Mexico, after June 20, when AeroMexico launches a new route. The twice-weekly flights will allow passengers to leave LAX at 2:20 p.m. Thursdays and return about noon on Sundays. Or fly south to La Paz...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Aeromexico
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He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook
By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...
Tags: Travel, Turkey, Genocide, Yerevan (Armenia), Russia
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Uruguay: Coastal reveries, away from it all
COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay — Straddling the crest of a sand dune, my back to the Atlantic Ocean, I watched a Uruguayan boy net fish in a river lagoon. He waded through the chest-high water, dragging behind him the reflection of the setting sun....
Tags: Travel, Entertainment, Trips and Vacations, Uruguay, Steaks
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Chinese poaching of rare mammal exposed by boating accident
A boating accident off the Philippines coast has exposed Chinese poaching of a protected species of scaly anteater, or pangolin, prized in traditional medicine. A 500-ton Chinese fishing vessel, the Min Long Yu, crashed into a coral reef April 8. When...
Tags: Philippines, World Wildlife Fund, U.S. Navy, Asthma, Malaysia
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