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...DELHI Located 46 km from Delhi, the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary is a haven for both resident and migratory birds. The best time to visit is September to March, when you can admire wintering European geese and Siberian cranes. The park offers chances to see more than 100 other species, including teals, kingfishers, cranes and herons. Boating is available on Sultanpur Lake and if you don't feel like making the trek back to town, you'll find plenty of guesthouses nearby. HONG KONG Counted among Hong Kong's best-kept secrets, the Mai Po Marshes attract many wetland birds, including...
Junichiro Koizumi was dressed to the nines for his last visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, because if you're going to be the center of international controversy, you might as well look good. Wearing a formal tuxedo jacket with coattails, the Japanese Prime Minister arrived at Yasukuni, where WWII-era war criminals are enshrined along with 2.5 million Japanese war dead, at 7:40 on Tuesday morning - 61 years after Japan surrendered to end World War II. He followed a white-robed Shinto priest into the shrine's inner hall, worshipped briefly and departed, the entire 10-minute visit carried...
...China and South Korea reacted angrily to his visit, the sixth during Koizumi's time as Prime Minister, but the reality is that both countries have long since written off Koizumi, who leaves office in a month. Solving the intractable question of Yasukuni - and possibly ending Japan's virtual diplomatic isolation in Asia - will fall to Koizumi's likely successor, the hawkish Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe. Both China and South Korea have signaled their willingness to give Abe a chance once he takes power, to allow him to begin to repair the immense damage that Koizumi has done...
...What had led me here? Over the years, the Rockefellers have given away much of their country estate; now 80 acres of it are devoted to the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture, which I had come to visit. The old milk barn is the center?s eat-like-a-Rockefeller, hundred-dollar-plus-per-person restaurant, Blue Hill at Stone Barns. That?s where I had come to eat, which is ultimately why I was in that closet...
...Hewlett-Packard is also in the middle of one right now (click here to check your system) - but Dell's is considered the largest in consumer-electronics history, affecting 15% of its laptops sold in the past two years. Shim and Enderle agree that it is prudent to visit Dell's website and check to see if your battery is on the list. Says Shim: "Only 6 computers out of 4 million have been hit - those are terrible Vegas odds - but I wouldn't want to be the guy that it happens...