Pearl Harbor changed his idea of adventure
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Sixty years ago today, I stopped into the original Howard Johnson&#39;s beside the Wollaston railroad station on my way to a religious meeting.
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Alaska is a sleepy frontier backwater until Pearl Harbor. The specter of Japanese troops plunging down from the north frightens two governments into building what will become the Alaska Highway.
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VENICE, Italy  - Ang Lee's lugubrious spy epic "Lust, Caution" brings to mind what soldiers say about war: that it is long periods of boredom relieved by moments of extremely heightened excitement.
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The Japanese island of Iwo Jima, scene of a fierce World War II battle, regains its original name.
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POIPU BEACH, Hawaii - When Phil Mickelson visited Kauai about eight months ago on a family vacation, he was determined to return. But with his 0-46 record in major championships as a pro and amateur, qualifying
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Instead of the beach or mountains, more tourists now spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity.  A former war correspondent offers a word of caution
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A former Japanese navy doctor says he had to experiment on condemned Filipino captives in World War II.
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WASHINGTON _ It's only a short hop by plane from the remote Aleutian fishing outpost of King Cove to the World War II-era airfield at Cold Bay, Alaska's third-largest airstrip.  If only the weather would cooperate, which much of the time it doesn't.
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Historians and survivors of Japan's   surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 are using   the latest online technology to preserve their memories of the   day that drew the United States into World War II.
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HONOLULU - A different week, a different island, and a much different view for K.J. Choi.
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Historians and survivors of Japan's  surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 are  using the latest online technology to preserve their memories  of the day that drew the United States into World War II.
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For five years, Paul James hitched,   trekked and drove to get away from his native West Africa. He   survived the Sahara, begged on the streets of Morocco and   crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy to reach what he   thought was the promised land.
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OSLO: Nearly 60 years after Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl and five others crossed the Pacific on their Kon-Tiki raft, six men will attempt to redo the feat next year, the head of the expedition said on Monday.
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By Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 24--Steven Solomon doesn't want to move a mountain.   Just a submerged houseboat.   But the chore may prove to be more difficult than he'd previously thought.
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By Linda Lange, lange@knews.com  An opportunity to circumnavigate New Guinea proved irresistible. I really didnt intend on going. My year was already planned, says Dr. Peter Stimpson of Loudon.
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Photographs of William Howard Taftâs mission to the Far East, now on view at the Nippon Club, were found in an unlikely place.
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Floating on the success of offbeat  domestic comedy "The Royal Tenenbaums," director Wes Anderson  set out to make an epic about adventure on the high seas. But  some critics are already predicting a shipwreck.