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The biggest surprise about New Zealand’s South Island is that there’s so much to do there. Honestly, it surprised me. New Zealand has a reputation as a land of sheep, mountains and little else when Peter Jackson and his Hobbit hordes aren’t filming. The capital, Auckland, is on the North Island, as is Wellington, site […]

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An upstate assemblyman has apologized for remarks he made at a press conference comparing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Jan. 15 gun control legislation to the work of Nazis and fascists. “Sometimes in the heat of the moment you say things that you regret,” said Republican Steven F. McLaughlin of the Capital District in Albany, in a […]

It was no ordinary marriage proposal. Rotem Langer is a 31-year-old veteran of the Israeli army whose speech was affected by his injuries. “Sometimes I forget words,” says Rotem. “I didn’t want that to happen when I proposed to Shelly.” Six months after they met, on April 29, 2012, he and Shelly were sitting on […]

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