After spending half a day learning how to put together an automobile, I have this to say: it is not as easy as it looks.

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What did I learn after spending a gorgeous Saturday in all-day training sessions with 140 Asian American women hungry to sharpen their leadership skills?

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"We do buy-ins rather than buyouts, " Chu says in a phone interview from Shanghai, where he was spending a day on his way back to Hong Kong after a tour of the Gulf states.

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After breakfast, you will be introduced to meditation before spending a half day practicing the ancient art in the monastery.

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The pushback came a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested more stimulus spending might be needed, and the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee said he had already instructed his staff to begin working on a bill.

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Commercial airline flights started backing up and delayed some travelers Monday, a day after air traffic controllers started going on furlough because of government spending cuts.

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After spending two years out of the spotlight, Dion returned in March 2002 with "A New Day Has Come, " her first studio album in five years.

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George Hood was panic-stricken one day in November when illusionist David Blaine, dehydrated and weak after spending 52 hours in a spinning gyroscope over Times Square in Manhattan, suddenly crashed through a supporting platform.

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