Kampot Rabbit Island and Bokor Hill Station

Source: Travel Blog

23rd Sept: Up early, got showered, dressed and packed up. Had breakfast and then was picked up by the mimibus to go to Kampot. It was more like a van and a bit uncomfortable, but it was quick and I was dropped off at a random guesthouse at 10 am. ...
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On the inside

Source: The Gazette

An empty prison in Jackson, Mich. one of the state's oldest facilities is seen Nov.25, 2009. (Marcin Szczepanski/Detroit Free Press) JACKSON, Mich. — There’s new glamour in the slammer. Tours are booming for Michigan’s most famous lockup city, with visit ...
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City guide: 48 hours in Oslo

Source: The Scotsman

Friday, 8pm Check into the Bristol Hotel (Kristian IV’s Gate 7, www.thonhotels.com, rooms from £160 per night) which is situated in the city centre. Saturday, 9am Soak in the sights with a stroll along the main pedestrian street, Karl Johans Gate. Pause ...
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"Hatfields & McCoys" a bleak depiction of famous feud

Source: Quad-Cities Online

For all the earnestness of their acting styles, Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton are often at their best when they're playing unpleasant people -- Costner as the killer-on-the-lam in Clint Eastwood's "A Perfect World," say, or Paxton as the psychotic d ...
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Source: Dearborn Press and Guide

What made Facebook a crazy success was that college kids had a place to hang out virtually, free of adult supervision. It played right into endless connectivity, a trend that began with Gen Y using e-mail, instant messaging an ...
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'Chernobyl Diaries' a thrilling historical horror

Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette

After scaring up impressive box-office receipts with haunted houses, Oren Peli set his latest horror film in one of the most infamous ghost towns in the world. "Chernobyl Diaries," which hit Green Bay theaters Friday, is produced ...
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Blurred genius: the photographs of Francesca Woodman

Source: The Telegraph UK

It is hard to see the photographs of Francesca Woodman as self-portraits, even though that is what they are, because in most of them she is on the verge of disappearing. In one picture she crouches down and glances sidelong ...
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Mount Shasta a mixture of mysticism and majesty

Source: The Register Guard

MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — Twenty-five years ago this August, thousands of people congregated at massive Mount Shasta for the “harmonic convergence.” They believed that an unusual planetary alignment would usher in a new era of universa ...
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Who let the Scottie out?

Source: Napa Valley Register

Call me jaded, but I had little enthusiasm for last Sunday’s near-total solar eclipse. If the evening sky over Napa had been expected to turn black, knocking birds off their perches, then yes, count me in. But the hype was not ne ...
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