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  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Cleanliness drive in Kashmir provide impetus to tourism

    Kashmir's Nageen Lake has got a new look following the construction of a state of the art Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), and due to a cleanliness drive that has attracted tourists and received applause from locals. The Lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) constructed the STP which has a capacity to treat 5.4 million litres of sewage per day. Saqib, a resident, appreciated the state ...

  • Qantas Airlines To Offer In-Flight Books

    Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. DAVID GREENE, HOST: And our last word in business on this Wednesday is: Mile High Book Club. LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: We're talking about an in-flight library offered by the Australian airline Qantas. GREENE: They will still have movies on the plane, that right, ...

  • Hilton Albany unveils $14 million renovation slideshow

    Celebrating the completion of the renovations at the Hilton Albany are (left to right) Chris Shaffer, food and beverage director; Miten Negandhi, conference services director; and Michael Melnick, manager of Charter restaurant The new Hilton Albany was unveiled this week after more than a year of renovations that cost $14 million. The 385-room hotel, the largest in the Albany, NY, region, ...

  • Why Chicagoans wont be flying so much this Memorial Day

    Chicago airports and their security lanes won't be as busy this Memorial Day weekend. Air travel from Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend will take a big hit this year. According to figures released today by the AAA Chicago, the number of people flying to their holiday destination from Illinois (which is largely the Chicago market) will total just over 88,000, a sharp 7.3 percent decrease ...


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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition) [DVD]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition) [DVD]

Unlike The Fellowship of the Ring, which opened with an information-packed prologue and then slowly eased itself into an extensive and leisurely introduction to all the major characters in the film, The Two Towers, the second installment of Peter Jacksons gloriously ambitious adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens sprawling fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, dives right into the acti ... ...

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  • Kemper Arena replacement must be priority

    Plans for the area around Kemper Arena call for a smaller venue more focused on agricultural events. The quest to replace Kemper Arena is like a duck on a pond moving quietly forward on the surface, with turbulent paddling going on underneath. It's been a year-and-a-half since the American Royal and the Kemper family released a proposal to raze Kansas City's Kemper Arena and replace it ...

  • Delta Airlines wants to stop Ex-Im bank help on big jets

    BA.N ), and would be willing to forgo such support for its own purchases of smaller jets if all such subsidies were eliminated, the chief executive said on ...

  • In Transit Blog Fees Take on New Altitude

    American air carriers took in more than $6 billion in fees from passengers in 2012, an increase of 3.8 percent for baggage and 7.3 for reservation changes over 2011, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. At the same time, passenger volume increased only slightly, 0.8 percent from 2011 to 2012. Delta Air Lines (above), which carried more passengers than any other domestic airline ...

  • Heads Up Haiti An Unlikely Location for Luxury

    The Ptionville suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has long been a tourism-friendly area, with a smattering of boutiques, galleries and ...

  • Update Luring Tourists Back to Greece

    Kostas, a waiter at the Diodos taverna, which offers a splendid view of the scene, smiled. A year ago, amid a political and economic crisis that fueled protests in central Athens and pushed Greece toward the brink of exiting the euro zone, the surrounding streets were hauntingly empty. But on a recent Saturday afternoon, Kostas, who only gave his first name, was scrambling to find an empty ...

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