At Home in the Caribbean Though Part of the U.S., St. John Feels Delightfully Far Away
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By Kathy Rodeghier Daily Herald Travel Editor  Starting next month you'll need a passport to fly off to most of the Caribbean, but you can still get that island feeling without one if you take your vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  As a U.S.
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They are returning home with a sense of accomplishment, but also with feelings of anger and frustration, even despair.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - For Americans, there  is no place quite like home. Europeans, however, always seem to  enjoy the challenge of foreign lands.
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Facing a vaccine shortage at home, Americans living near the Canadian and Mexican borders are finding that the flu shots they need may be only a quick car or boat trip away.
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Parts of the Caribbean are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Ivan within the next 36 hours.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Jun. 23--CAPE CANAVERAL -- You can't walk very far when you're on a spaceship, sea breezes are the stuff of dreams, and a good pizza? Forget about it.
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Winds from Hurricane John reached 115 miles an hour early today as it advanced toward this tourist resort.
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Telephone calls from flabergasted friends back home have helped install a sense of urgency in the United States Olympic basketball team in the wake of their stunning loss to Puerto Rico.
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As a lifelong resident of Louisiana, the U.S. state that gave us  Huey Long and  David Duke, I have always  taken comfort in the fact that my home state is an island  of insanity in a country that mostly gets it right.    But lately I recognize some disturbingly familiar trends on  the national scene.  Listen if you will to the tale of two  elections, and decide for yourself if the USA as a whole is  turning into Louisiana.
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Jamaica travels to Ohio this week knowing that a first ever win against United States would wrap up a place in the third and final stage of CONCACAF World Cup qualifying.
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The streets are tree-lined, and mostly quiet. The breezes that blow in off the Atlantic Ocean? Heavenly. Even the teenagers are nice, says Eric Hansch, who sees more than his share of them in his Atomic CDs record store when school lets out.
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Facing a vaccine shortage at home,  Americans living near the Canadian and Mexican borders are  finding that the flu shots they need may be only a quick car or  boat trip away.
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Hurricane Jeanne is bearing down on the Caribbean nation with 160-kilometre-an-hour winds and drenching rains. In Florida, residents have been alerted that hurricane conditions were possible in the next 36 hours.
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Florida and the Bahamas are bracing for Hurricane Jeanne, which is churning westward in the Atlantic Ocean with winds near 160 kph.
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LOS CABOS, Mexico  - While Mexican residents and   foreign tourists rushed to take shelter from Hurricane John   roaring toward this beach resort on Friday, two American   extreme weather enthusiasts were loving it.
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Caribbean islanders are bracing for Hurricane Ivan -- only a few days since Hurricane Frances roared through the region. Ivan is heading for the Windward Islands packing sustained winds of 110 miles-an-hour.
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Feel like a fish out of water? You may not be too far off.