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...Teng-hui becomes the island's first native Taiwanese President, and democratic reforms begin to take hold...
...MARGARET ISLAND Shared by a couple of four-star hotels (the 1970s Danubius Thermal Hotel Margitsziget and the turn-of-the-century Danubius Grand Hotel Margitsziget), this is Budapest's largest private spa. Renovated in 2002, it includes two thermal pools, a swimming pool, sauna and a 400-sq-m fitness center. A one-day package (several relaxation treatments, such as massage and aroma bath, a light meal and access to pools and fitness center) costs $56.50 on weekdays, plus an extra $4.90 on weekends...
...China attacks the island of Quemoy, a base for about 100,000 Nationalist troops in the Taiwan Strait, in a bid to "liberate" Taiwan. The U.S. deploys the Seventh Fleet; the Chinese back...
...tacitly supporting the war. After narrowly winning the election last March, Jäätteenmäki was forced to resign three months later. On Thin Ice NORTH POLE Russia plucked to safety 12 of its scientists stranded on a disintegrating ice floe 700 km from Norway's Spitzbergen island in a high-risk helicopter rescue mission. Most of the structures of the North Pole-32 research station sank when the ice pack on which it was built started to break up. The scientists, none of whom were hurt in the incident, had been left with just two buildings...
...best part was that I got to spend some really nice time with the students and feel not only where they are but also where they’re going as educated people...It just changes the opinion I had of Harvard which was very Gilligan’s Island-like...