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Liberia
Video Of The Day: Liberia And Cannibal Generals
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Charles Taylor was all over the news today. The former president of Liberia has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for supporting and arming homicidal rebels in Sierra Leone in ...
New airport terminals, once delayed, prep for opening this year
New airport terminals can add time-saving features to existing facilities, bringing the latest in technology and security. If and when they open. Local and worldwide economic conditions caused projects to be delayed or shelved for a while. Now, several new facilities are ...World's worst places: Top 10 places you do not want to visit in 2012
Update: Check out the World's Worst Places of 2013 here
What comes to mind when you think of the world's worst place? While it is easy to complain about rural Wal-marts, La Guardia, Applebee's, and any government office with motor vehicle in its title, none of ...Africa's new middle class benefits travel
Africa's middle class is growing.
The African Development Bank says one in three Africans are now middle class. While the bank's definition isn't comparable to the Western definition--the African middle class makes $2-$20 a day--the lifestyle is similar. Middle-class ...Inexperinced Captain Blamed for Antarctic Cruise Ship Sinking
Back in November of 2007 a cruise ship, called the Explorer, owned and operated by GAP Adventures, a well known and respected adventure travel operator, went down in the Southern Ocean. Fortunately, none of the 154 people on board were killed, or even injured for that ...Delta flight diversion doesn't save conjoined twins
After writing the Winona post another flight diversion story came out. Winona's seemed trivial in comparison, although I'm always interested to sift through vagueness of words like "sick," and who gets what treatment.
The latest diversion story that I read at CBCnews.com ...Surging food prices force Liberians to eat spaghetti
If you had to choose one, would you go for rice or pasta? The rapid increase in food prices world wide might not be affecting the West much, but in many countries around the globe, it means changing their life-long habits and switching to cheaper foods, BBC reports. For ...Your kid misbehaving? Send him to Liberia
From the New York Times city front-page today comes a remarkable story of a Staten Island mother who sent her teenage son back to Liberia. He was starting to turn to drugs, gangs, and all those other things that inner-city teens find tempting them on the street corner. Her ...The World's Most Dangerous Destinations for 2007
Here at Gadling, we usually profile places people WANT to go. However, sometimes it's useful to mention places to avoid. Consequently, here's an interesting (and not altogether surprising) list of the 2007's 12 Most Dangerous Destinations:
Somalia
Iraq
...Fifteen Most Dangerous Trips?
There's a really terrific book out there called Non-Zero by Robert Wright, that I urge you all to read. The book's premise is that there is a design to nature, an evolving complexity in all things, including human society. Forget "Intelligent Design", at least as far as ...Africa Travel: Liberia
Liberia's political history is something I've been wanting to get knee-deep in for the longest. As an African-American I find the resettlement of process of 'free men of color' from America back into Liberia in 1822 fascinating. Liberia is a country that sits between ...
