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Vegas Strip casino-hotel imploded

21.01.2012, 08:42

The New Frontier casino-hotel was imploded early Tuesday, giving a violent end to the second property to open on the Las Vegas Strip.

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The 16-story hotel tower was felled with over 1,000 pounds of explosives before a group of reporters and bystanders to make way for a multibillion-dollar resort bearing The Plaza brand, which is set to open in 2011.




Tourism Officials Try To Reintroduce Orlando

18.01.2012, 08:23

Tourism has defined this town since the moment Walt Disney World opened its doors in 1971.

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But these days, fewer American families outside Florida think of Orlando as a "must-see" spot to take the kids, and fewer aspire to visit. To combat slowing visitor growth, tourism officials are launching their biggest marketing effort to date: a $25 million push that will put Orlando on national television for the first time, and -- they hope -- re-energize the city like Las Vegas' "What Happens Here Stays Here" campaign.




Mayor Salutes Jewish London

08.01.2012, 17:48

Mayor Ken Livingstone hailed the Jewish Community's "enormous" contribution to London life as he launched a new report on Jewish life in the capital.

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The Jewish Population in London, which is based on information from the 2001 census, was commissioned to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the community’s return to Britain.




Security pictures used to identify Feilding hotel patrons

06.01.2012, 11:54

Police investigating the slaying of Feilding friends Margaret Waldin and Ted Ferguson are using security camera footage to identify everyone in the hotel where the pair spent some time before their deaths.

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Mrs Waldin, 76, and Mr Ferguson, 73, were found dead with stab wounds in Mr Ferguson’s flat on Sunday May 29.

They had been in the Manchester Tavern in Feilding two days before, on Friday night.




Memory is their guide

23.12.2011, 23:02

The opening chapter of Kevin Brockmeier's extraordinary new novel, "The Brief History of the Dead," is as breathtaking as any fiction I have read in the past few years. People who have died describe their crossing over into a nameless city in the afterlife. To one blind man, the crossing felt like he walked for days through a desert.

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Another man described his passage as an amusement park train ride. A girl passed through an ocean the color of dried cherries and a rain of ball bearings.




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