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POPSAmerica’s Hidden Treasures Been to Glacier Bay, Alaska. Beautiful. Going to Alaska will give you a new perspective on life. In some places, you have to put your sun visor down at 3:00 a.m. Or when it warms up to -35 degrees (Fahrenheit) people are outside in short sleeve shirts washing their cars. At Halloween, your costume has to fit over a snowsuit. And people drive for a mile on square tires on a -65 degree morning.
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POPSWhy Americans Should Never Be Allowed To Travel A woman called to make reservations, "I want to go from Chicago to Hippopotamus, New York" The agent was at a loss for words. Finally, the agent: "Are you sure that's the name of the town?" "Yes, what flights do you have?" replied the customer. After some searching, the agent came back with, "I'm sorry, ma'am, I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a Hippopotamus anywhere." The customer retorted, "Oh don't be silly. Everyone knows where it is. Check your map!" The agent scoured a map of the state of New York and finally offered, "You don't mean Buffalo, do you?" "That's it! I knew it was a big animal!"
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POPS Top Ten Best Tropical Islands I’m a beach lover. These are the ten top islands and beaches in the world where people can sit back, relax, enjoy the sun, and wonder if they really should board that flight home. This tourist mecca is voted one of the best islands in the world year after year. There’s enough room on Bali for everyone, the surfing is great, the food amazing, it’s dirt cheap, the parties are great, the locals some of the friendliest in the world, there’s a volcano to climb, temples to see- Bali has it all. Hawaii’s biggest island has everything you could ever want to do and more. But what separates it from the other islands is Volcano National Park. Explore volcanoes, climb through old lava tubes, and watch as new lava oozes into the ocean. Then there’s all the waterfalls on the island too. Big Island has it all.
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POPSFirst family reflects a nation's diversity I've been happy and proud that so many NON-"people of color" voted for Obama -- now I know he's really a man of the future with his race-blind family. According to anthropologists and DNA experts, race is a nonscientific contruct of culture. We are all part of the same species - Homo Sapiens. In the future, intermarriages from easy travel will tend to make our descendents "beige and beautiful" - like Malia and Sasha.
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POPS***Year of marine wonders*** The BBC has published a slideshow titled 'Year of marine wonders'. It showcases some of the most bizarre ocean discoveries of the past year.
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POPSCalifornia paid for top officials' free rides Carrie Lopez, director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, charged taxpayers to fly from Sacramento, where she works, to Los Angeles, where she lives, to attend a Justin Timberlake concert with her daughter. Lopez also billed the state for meals on days she received those meals for free from corporations, according to state records.
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POPSThe World's Top 10 Beach Destinations Even if money's tight, you can still take the vacation of your dreams. More and more, mid-priced beach resorts are putting on the ritz for price-conscious families, offering oceanside campfires and nature walks, elaborate kids' swimming pools, and upscale room decor.
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POPS Barack Goes To Hawaii A 4th lawsuit has been filed seeking to find out once again, if Obama is a natural born US Citizen. Plaintiff Andy Martin, has filed in the CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIRST CIRCUIT, STATE OF HAWAII - CIVIL NUMBER: 08-1-2147-10 against Defendants LINDA LINGLE, in her Official capacity as Governor Of the State of Hawai’i, and DR. CHIYOME ******* in her official capacity as Director of the Department of Health. 1. Plaintiff requested a certified copy of the birth certificate of Senator Obama from the Department of Health and tendered the requisite fee. 2. Defendants refused to provide a copy of said certificate, invoking the confidentiality statutes of the State. 3. The issue of the Senator’s birth certificate has become a controversial topic of intense national speculation. http://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/obamas-birth-certificate-lawsuit-filed-in-hawaii/
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POPSMission to Break up Pacific Island of Rubbish Twice the Size of Texas
Mr Moore found bottle caps, plastic bags and polystyrene floating with tiny plastic chips. Worn down by sunlight and waves, discarded plastic disintegrates into smaller pieces. Suspended under the surface, these tiny fragments are invisible to ships and satellites trying to map the plastic continent, but in subsequent trawls Mr Moore discovered that the chips outnumbered plankton by six to one. Because of their tiny size and the scale of the problem, he believes that nothing can be solved at sea. “Trying to clean up the Pacific gyre would bankrupt any country and kill wildlife in the nets as it went.” In June the 151ft brigantine Kaisei (Japanese for Planet Ocean) will unfurl its sails in San Francisco to try to prove Mr Moore wrong. Project Kaisei’s flagship will be joined by a decommissioned fishing trawler armed with specialised nets. “The trick is collecting the plastic while minimising the catch of sea life. We can’t catch the tiny pieces. But the net benefit of getting the
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POPSContinent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is particularly dangerous for birds and marine life, said Warner Chabot, vice president of the Ocean Conservancy, an environmental group. Sea turtles mistake clear plastic bags for jellyfish. Birds swoop down and swallow indigestible shards of plastic. The petroleum-based plastics take decades to break down, and as long as they float on the ocean's surface, they can appear as feeding grounds. "These animals die because the plastic eventually fills their stomachs," Chabot said. "It doesn't pass, and they literally starve to death." The Greenpeace report found that at least 267 marine species had suffered from some kind of ingestion or entanglement with marine debris. Chabot said if environmentalists wanted to remove the ocean dump site, it would take a massive international effort that would cost billions. "
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POPSCongress's Travel Tab Swells 
Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos Lawmakers frequently bring along spouses on congressional trips. If they take commercial flights, they have to buy tickets for spouses. If they fly on government planes -- as they usually do -- their spouses can fly free. Paris Air Show In mid-June, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii) led a group of a half-dozen senators and their spouses on a four-day trip to France for the biennial Paris Air Show. An itinerary for the event shows that lawmakers flew on the Air Force's version of the Boeing 737, which costs $5,700 an hour to operate. They stayed at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand Hotel, which advertises rooms from $460 a night. The lawmakers were invited to a dinner party at the U.S. Embassy and had cocktails at a private party at the Eiffel Tower. Mr. Inouye attended a dinner sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association, a U.S. trade group. Another senator on the trip, Alabama Republican Sen. Ri
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POPSIsland-hopping in Hawaii I love Hawaii - and Maui is consistently voted the best tropical vacation island in the world. This new ferry service sounds like a great idea; people taking vacations on one island can overnight on another, taking the scenic route. Oahu to Kauai sounds great.
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POPSTop 5 Most Luxurious Hotels and Resorts just reading traveling related stuff make me to go weak on my knees: I am a self proclaimed travelist (is there a word like this?) love visiting places, talking to people, the tastes, the air special to every other place in the world...just traveling...
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POPSJUNK of AMERICA Our trash is killing our planet...these people are trying to stop it from happening..
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