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Alan Davis, Oahu, Hawaii
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Movement to shut down shark tours in Hawaii grows
Chicago Sun-Times
| HALEIWA, Hawaii -- Three women donned scuba masks and jumped into the waters off Oahu's North Shore, floating inside a submerged cage as about a dozen sharks glided toward bloody fish scraps tossed into the water by a tour company. | Tourist Kim Duniec said the experience of coming eye-to-eye with...
 solar panel - hires- am1
(photo: GNU / Aruna Mirasdar)
Japan looking sunny for makers of solar panels
The Times
| Talk that the clouds were finally lifting from the world's solar power market helped to make PV Crystalox Solar, the long-suffering solar supplier, the second-best performer in the FTSE 350. | Kyocera Corp, of Japan, the world's sixth-largest solar panel maker, triggered the sunny mood when it rep...
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Whither the Caribbean Community?
The Gleaner
| The bickering now taking place in CARICOM and the CSME is symptomatic of a larger concern of whether the goal is simply a large common market, or a genuine community that demonstrates how small countries with a similar heritage in the same economic...
Cooper Gay staff share £170m bonanza as insurer floats
The Times
| Staff at a City insurance broker are set to share in a multi-million-pound windfall as the company prepares to float on the stock market. | Cooper Gay, one of the world's biggest privately owned insurance and reinsurance brokers, has appointed UBS,...
Movement to shut down shark tours in Hawaii grows
The Press Democrat
| Tourist Kim Duniec said the experience of coming eye-to-eye with sharks was exhilarating. "Their eyes were scary, but they were still graceful, absolutely beautiful," the Beaver Dam, Wis., woman said. | Shark tours like this have become a popular v...
Movement to shut down shark tours in Hawaii grows
Kansas City Star
More News | Three women donned scuba masks and jumped into the waters off Oahu's North Shore, floating inside a submerged cage as about a dozen sharks glided toward bloody fish scraps tossed into the water by a tour company. | Tourist Kim Duniec said...
Mariah Carey
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Mariah Scary! As she arrives in Cannes - with a mere 15 staff - there's ...
The Daily Mail
| Star turn: Mariah Carey at the Cannes premiere of Precious | The people who run the Martinez Hotel, on the Croisette at Cannes, probably thought that they had seen it all before....
A Gulfstream G-400 during takeoff
Creative Commons / McLeod
Gulfstream International Airlines faces $1.3M fine
Business Journal
Venango airport will get flights to Cleveland Missouri gets millions for airport improvements | The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed fining Fort Lauderdale-based Gulfst...
Disney
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Disney on a dime: Yes, Mouseketeers, you can do it
USA Today
Updated  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   Disney Campsite fees at Disney World's Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground start at $43 a night.  MORE ABOUT...
Movement to shut down shark tours in Hawaii grows
Wtop
By AUDREY McAVOY | Associated Press Writer | HALEIWA, Hawaii (AP) - Three women donned scuba masks and jumped into the waters off Oahu's North Shore, floating inside a submerged cage as about a dozen sharks glided toward bloody fish scraps tossed int...
Economic free fall shakes Caribbean
The Miami Herald
| Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas stood before a roomful of world leaders at the United Nations in New York last week and painted a stark picture of how the financial meltdown was threatening his eastern Caribbean island. | Customs revenues, wh...
Visit charming Charleston, S.C., on the cheap
USA Today
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | |   By Brad Nettles, The Post and Courier via AP The Ravenel Bridge linking Charleston with Mount Pleasant has been an attraction in itself since opening four years ago. FLIGHTS, HOTELS AND ...
Caribbean
ag2 Tiger Woods during round 4 of the 2008 World Golf Championships- CA Championship Sunday March 23, 2008 at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Miami, Florida
(photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
Woods prevails in tournament with his name
Ohio
| Tiger Woods made it a hat trick of victories in tournaments hosted by PGA Tour stars, this one the most meaningful of all because it was his own. | Woods lived up to his hopes of being a ''greedy host'' Sunday, leaving Anthony Kim in his wake and then making a 20-foot birdie putt on the 16th hole to overtake hard-charging Hunter Mahan for a 1-sho...
Business
Air Jamaica - Air Jamaica Airbus A340-300 (registration 6Y-JMP) landing at London Heathrow Airport, England. In the background (left to right) are aircraft from Lufthansa (Germany), Iberia (Spain) and Olympic (Greece) /aaeh
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Report: Spirit Airlines buys Air Jamaica
Syracuse
| (AP) - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Discount carrier Spirit Airlines has reportedly acquired Air Jamaica in a government-led effort to privatize the island's money-losing national airline. | The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper says a deal was reached after a committee charged with the airline's privatization submitted its report. The newspaper cites unnamed...



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