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Australia: In Byron Bay, beach meets boho
BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA — My face flushed cherry red and my sweat-soaked sundress clung to my body. I stood, elated, on a wooden platform at the summit of Mt. Warning, a jagged peak in the Gondwana rain forest. The mountain, in the far northeastern...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Coffee, Arts and Culture, Australia, Breads
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Ryan Crocker says U.S. is fumbling on Iran's nuclear program
WASHINGTON — Ryan Crocker has long been viewed as America's indispensable diplomat in the Muslim world. President George W. Bush named him ambassador to Iraq in 2007 to rescue a failing policy, and four years later, President Obama dispatched him to...
Tags: George W. Bush, Politics, Barack Obama, National Government, Iran's Nuclear Program
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Far from Cannes, real 'Bling Ring' pieces their lives back together
Three years ago, the hot story in L.A. was the Bling Ring, the fame-obsessed group that burglarized the homes of young Hollywood. The film version of their capers, Sofia Coppola’s "The Bling Ring," premiered to much ado at the Cannes Film Festival...
Tags: A Current Affair (tv program), Paris Hilton, Robert J. Lopez, Film Festivals, Movies
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Oklahoma tornado toll at 24 dead, 377 hurt as recovery speeds up
MOORE, Okla. -- As this devastated city buried the first victim of this week’s tornado, officials announced that the human toll appeared to be final at 24 dead and 377 injured. Led by Gov. Mary Fallin, state and local officials said at a news...
Tags: Barack Obama, Tornadoes, Politics, Apache Corporation, FEMA
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'The Bling Ring' comes full circle for Alexis Neiers
"Can you give mommy a cue? Are you hungry?" 21-year-old Alexis Neiers cooed to her crying newborn in the middle of a faux-upscale Calabasas restaurant last week. "When she puts her hands in her mouth, she's hungry. Right now, she's just tired. Maybe a...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Defendants, Lindsay Lohan, Entertainment, Celebrities
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George Packer chronicles American boom and bust in 'The Unwinding'
George Packer's new nonfiction book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," has many of the qualities of an epic novel. Packer's subject is the last 35 years of U.S. history, the decades that gave us the conservative "Contract With...
Tags: Ethics, Politics, Authors, Freedom of the Press, Real Estate
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U.S. drivers will spend $1.4 billion on gasoline over Memorial Day
Get ready for an expensive three-day weekend behind the wheel. The Union of Concerned Scientists says that Americans will spend about $1.4 billion on gasoline over the course of the Memorial Day holiday. Among those paying the most will be...
Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Holidays, Memorial Day, Human Interest, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Syria's military shows unexpected resilience
BEIRUT — The military onslaught this week against the strategic Syrian town of Qusair has dramatized a surprising combat resilience that has already put rebel forces on the defensive on other key fronts, including near the capital, Damascus. The...
Tags: Human Rights, Bashar Assad, Politics, National Government, Weaponry
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Oklahoma tornado 'was a monster'
Rescuers sifted through debris in a desperate search for survivors Monday night after a massive tornado battered the Oklahoma City area, killing at least 51 people, including 20 children, and injuring 120. The toll was expected to rise. With 200-mph...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Highway Transportation, Natural Disasters, National Weather Service, Alana Semuels
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J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Fall of Arthur' and the path to Middle-Earth
The books go ever on and on. Forty years after his death at 81, works by J.R.R. Tolkien continue to appear. The latest, "The Fall of Arthur," lists nine works published during his lifetime ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy appears as a single title) and 24...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Poetry, University of Oxford, Folklore and Mythology
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Album review: The National's melancholic 'Trouble Will Find Me'
Here's some important background information for anyone considering the sixth album from Brooklyn-based masters of rock 'n' roll despair the National: "I am not," singer Matt Berninger declares late in the album, on "Graceless," "my rosy self." Longtime...
Tags: The National (music group)
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