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Traveling abroad? For information, check with the country's tourist office
For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is through their website only. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-...Tags: Estonia, Armenia, Politics, United Nations, Peru
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Win the FOX Rocks Lunchbox!
Sign up to win the Fox Rocks Lunchbox! K-Mack announces a new winner every Monday and Thursday at 10am drawn from all entries. We visit the winner at work and deliver the coveted FOX ROCKS LUNCH BOX, filled with great prizes every Tuesday and Friday...Tags: Armenia, Estonia, Benin, Peru, New Zealand
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Discoveries
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Gray Earth Galsan Tschinag, translated from the German by Katharina Rout Milkweed: 303 pp., $24 Galsan Tschinag was born in the 1940s in Mongolia and educated in Germany. After university, he returned to Mongolia to lead what was left of his...Tags: Homes, Germany, Environmental Issues, Disasters and Accidents, Real Estate
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Tales of the Funemployed
Los Angeles TimesMichael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn't panic. He didn't rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless "kind of settled nicely." Week one: "I thought, 'OK ... I need to...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Costa Mesa, Travel, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Times
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Please Don't Go
Here's a discouraging metric: Google the phrase "endangered places" and you'll get more than 30,000 results. The Natural Resources Defense Council wants to preserve the white water of Patagonia's Futaleufu River; the World Wildlife Fund urges saving the...Tags: Death, Travel, IMAX, Conservation, Ecotourism
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In China, Echoes of the Past
Times Staff WriterXILINHOT, China — Video recorder in hand, Wang Hong sat inside a small stone-and-brick house with one of China's aging musical masters — a Mongolian vocalist named Hajab who once sang his region's ancestral melodies for Chairman Mao Tse-tung....Tags: Culture, China, Homes, Archaeology, Pakistan
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Foreign tourist boards
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or...Tags: Estonia, Armenia, United Nations, New Zealand, Peru
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'Star Wars' Actor Adopts Mongolian Girl
Zap2It.comEwan McGregor, who plays Jedi mentor Ben Kenobi in the "Star Wars" prequels, has taken someone under his wing in real life. The actor and his wife Eve Mavrakis have adopted a four-year-old girl from Mongolia, reports People magazine. Besides gaining two...Tags: Television, Beatrix Potter, Crime (genre), Travel, Family Vacations
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Leading His Flock of Refugees to Asylum
Times Staff WriterERENHOT, China -- It is their last supper together, and the shepherd has gathered his small flock of North Koreans around a table piled with steaming plates of shredded pork, rice and braised tofu. But the seven refugees are too nervous to do more than...Tags: Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, China, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Basically, we are all the same
Tribune staff reporterIn a beat-up refrigerator humming away in his laboratory storeroom, Ken Weiss is storing vials of human blood: the largest gene pool left of a tribe of people inexorably vanishing from the Earth. The insides of the freezer, not much different from ones...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Arizona, Indigenous People
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