Once again, the Herald has sent me, its one and only foreign correspondent, on a journey far and wide and Down Under, to see the world and report back to my readers.
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1/10/13
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China’s acclaimed circus troupe blends the magic and mystery of the East with contemporary European flair when it performs Cirque Chinois" next Friday.
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11/2/12
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Seventeen-year-old Justin Andrews had only traveled to his parents’ native island of Jamaica, so when the Model United Nations student got the chance to head over to Beijing, China in July, it’s …
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By Deirdre Krasula
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8/8/12
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Part one of a two-part series.
Imagine building an incinerator next to a hospital nursery.
That, critics say, is about what the Village of Freeport would be doing if it were to build a $550 million waste-to-energy incinerator alongside a wetland in south Freeport, near the Merrick border. Plans for the facility appear in doubt (see related story, "What's up with Freeport's incinerator plans?"). But if eventually approved, the project could have serious consequences for the local environment and human health.
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Allie Wilkinson
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5/13/10
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World leaders — and a throng of environmentalists and reporters — descended on Copenhagen last week for the 2009 Climate Conference convened by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And what a raucous show it was, with 1,000 black-masked “protesters” getting arrested after hurling bricks through windows and battling police.
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Scott Brinton
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12/17/09
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