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The kids had their day alone yesterday at the start of Bruins training camp. The rookies, a few of them even looking old enough to shave (important to clarify: shave is not a term for cheating in this usage), scurried onto the Ristuccia Arena ice at 1:30 p.m. with skates sharpened, eyes wide open, and dreams even wider.
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MY father died while planning his last trip home. An Irish emigrant who had gone to the New World, he suffered the usual homesickness, a homesickness that became more compelling with each passing year.
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Between 200 and 300 expatriates were expected to have been flown out of the west African state by tonight after the British army was called in to evacuate them.
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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Planes shuttled tourists from island resorts in a desperate airlift yesterday as Hurricane Felix bore down on Honduras and Belize. But thousands of Miskito Indians were stranded along a swampy coastline where the Category 4 storm was expected to make landfall.
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By Richard Weizel, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 10--STRATFORD -- The cottages on Long Beach are empty now, leaving the fate of the peninsula, which was once an island, to the natural flow of time and tides -- at least for now.
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IT offers the perfect remove from a busy life, writes Jenny Shields.   Here, on an elevated spot above the Moray Firth, with views across open countryside to the sea, is the ultimate hideaway.
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Investors are taking a long walk off this Pier.
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 30--The search continued today for the pioneering Bay Area computer scientist who went missing after he left Sunday morning for what he told family was a day sailing trip to the Farallon Islands to dispose of his mother's ashes.
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Back on the island, things are looking up for a show that a lot of us had almost given up on.
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PORT ARANSAS, Texas _ Island inertia sets in during the drive over the causeway from Corpus Christi.  An hour ago, hair and clothes mattered. But now nothing does, really, except the beach or the fishing.
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Emergency evacuation is under way for British tourists on Caribbean islands threatened by Hurricane Ivan.
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India&#39;s dwindling aboriginal population in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is safe as most lived in jungles, far away from the coast hit by a devastating
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More than half a million Jamaicans fled their homes today as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the island with 150 mph winds. It left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean and the death toll of 23 was expected to rise.
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By Houston Chronicle  Dec. 17--No man is an island, the poet John Donne writes, but many residents of Houston's far-flung suburbs once thought they could profitably isolate themselves from Houston and all its problems.
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By PETER GUINTA  When wild ocean waves are daily undermining the house foundation and washing away patio furniture, it may be difficult for that homeowner to remain patient.
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Rhode Island legend tells of a spectral ship that haunts the waters off Block Island, bursting into flame and sinking into the ocean. Depending on who's spinning the tale, the islanders involved in the human drama turned out to be heroes &#151; or monsters.
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By ZENA ALLI  PROBLEM: Where do you take a large family group of four generations with ages ranging from two to 70 - plus a couple of their teenage friends - on an affordable holiday and keep them all happy? Solution: The Isle of Wight.