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• Maldives gears up for first democratic election
Whoever wins will inherit a stunningly beautiful country of 1,190 coral islands, about 200 of them inhabited and dozens more developed into tourist resorts, many owned by current and former Cabinet ministers. The elected president will also confront a ...
• Best learning holidays for kids
William and Mary King of Riverside, Conn., took their two children, ages eight and 11, to the posh Bitter End Yacht Club on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands last spring where the young sailors, who race on Long Island Sound in the summer ...
• Come aboard: My Nickelodeon cruise
Did you know that the Cayman Islands were named after a marine crocodile (otherwise known as a turtle) which was found there, and that they were accidentally discovered after Columbus' final voyage to the new world veered off track? Or that Ocho Rios ...
• Hawaii promoting its ‘value’ to visitors
... more than $12.5 million in emergency funding that has been devoted by the state and businesses to combat a slump in tourism. One key component is promoting Hawaii's value as a destination, which means trying to dispel the perception that the islands ...
• Huge exoplanet puzzles astronomers
... helium that powers real stars. Planets do none of that. "It has puzzled us; we're not sure where to draw the boundary between planets and brown dwarfs," said Hans Deeg, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in the Canary Islands ...