Word: send-off
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...CHENGDU, China) - An elaborate welcome was ready Friday for two American-born giant pandas arriving at their new China home after a tearful send-off in Washington by adoring crowds...
...year-old Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta whirled and paced in her crate during the send-off, which was covered live on U.S. television. Tai Shan, a 4 1/2-year-old born in Washington, shyly ate a last-minute snack of apples and pears from the hands of his longtime keepers...
Though FlyBy predicts most will simply be surprised or amused to see Faith ambling across the Yard, Cox, who will remain on faculty post-retirement as a part-time research professor, hopes that his send-off exercise will help "reacquaint people with crops and animals and where food actually comes from...
...That doesn't mean the ticketless crowds won't try to soak up the atmosphere of Jackson's big send-off. Los Angeles officials braced for an onslaught of visitors to the Staples Center vicinity and other locations. Streets surrounding the area were closed off entirely at midnight on Monday, and city officials advised those without a ticket to stay at home. "There will not be anything to see," L.A.'s acting mayor Jan Perry told TIME. "This is a private event on private property...
...sections are thick with marriage announcements. As the last soggy weeks of spring give way to the balmy days of summer, wedding season has arrived - and with it, an onslaught of bachelor parties. With an estimated 2.2 million weddings in the U.S. each year, providing for the groom's send-off is big business. Dozens of websites cater to the needs of the bachelor-party planner (typically, the groom's best man). I-Volution Inc., which owns two of the largest bachelor-party sites on the Web, says its websites get about 4 million visitors a year - 35% of whom...