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Jun 13th, 2008 at 3:30PM: The tiny country of Paraguay doesn't often pop up on the "must-see" list for those traveling to South America. Sitting landlocked between Argentina to the south, Bolivia to the west and Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay has been described as "the forgotten country of Latin America." But Paraguay has nevertheless attracted quite a bit of attention lately, less for tourism than because it is an ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Ciudad del Este - South America's black market hotspot
Jun 13th, 2008 at 3:30PM: The tiny country of Paraguay doesn't often pop up on the "must-see" list for those traveling to South America. Sitting landlocked between Argentina to the south, Bolivia to the west and Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay has been described as "the forgotten country of Latin America." But Paraguay has nevertheless attracted quite a bit of attention lately, less for tourism than because it is an ...Gun-friendly national parks possibly coming soon
May 31st, 2008 at 11:00PM: I've been in national parks from Acadia in Maine to Glacier in Montana to Zion in Utah to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. (You can start humming "This Land is Your Land" if you like.) I've always felt safe--aggravated sometimes by over-sized RVs, but safe.
I even felt safe when I was hiking in Glacier with my husband, then boyfriend, when we saw a mother grizzly bear and her cub in ...US Airways pilot's gun discharges while in flight
Mar 24th, 2008 at 10:00AM: If there's one thing that fires people up besides shirts with the F word on it, it's guns. At issue is whether or not pilots should be allowed to carry weapons in the cockpit. While it's a definitive way to reinforce security at 30,000 feet, the presence of a firearm onboard increases the potential for accidents -- and disaster. That's what happened last Saturday when a US Airways pilot's gun ...Why do Americans want to own guns?
Oct 25th, 2007 at 11:06AM: I remain baffled by how it's legal to own a gun in the United States. I think even the option of having one is like saying it's OK to kill if you have a good reason. According to a recent piece in Newsweek there are 215 million guns in America -- i.e. more than half the households across the country own one. This statistic triggered photographer and author of "Armed America" Kyle Cassidy to ...Bizarre Kalashnikov Museum Evokes the Cult of Lenin
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Jul 10th, 2007 at 12:13PM: You can take Russia out of the Soviet Union, but you can't take the Soviet out of some Russians.
Three years ago, in celebration of Mikhail Kalashnikov's 85th birthday, a museum was opened in the Russian city of Izhevsk to honor Kalashnikov's most enduring gift to the world; the AK-47 submachine gun.
An entire museum dedicated to a single gun might seem rather excessive, but this isn't just any ...
