Up to 6 million Chinese are expected to travel abroad this year for business or pleasure--many for the first time--up from 5.3 million in 1997 and 2.8 million in 1992.

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During the program, she cut back "on everything else in my life, " including traveling for pleasure because "there simply isn't time or funding, " she says.

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But for pleasure boats, which may spend a lot of time idle, Dr Williams's team is trying to improve the formula so that a boat need not be moving so fast before the paint does its job.

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Strong winds blew the roof off offices at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach leading owners to close the site for the first time on an Easter Saturday.

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"It is a pleasure to be a winner again, to take it for the fourth time against such top opposition, " he said after the ceremony in Cairo.

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Still, such quibbling should not spoil the pleasure of those who come looking for an absorbing read about a remote but captivating time.

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Then, without any condescension, she said that if I was running after Leo all the time, we wouldn't be able to indulge in the small pleasure of sitting and chatting for a few minutes.

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For me, of course, it was a pleasure to meet the President of the United States, President Obama, for the first time here in the Oval Office in the run-up, indeed, to the NATO summit in the beginning of April, so less than two weeks away in Strasbourg and Kehl, in France and Germany -- in the heart of Europe, by the way, which is an interesting place to celebrate NATO's 60th anniversary.

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