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Customs Waits at Airports Found to Be Three to Five Hours - Bloomberg
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection staffing shortages are leaving arriving international travelers standing in line for nearly five hours at the busiest airports, according to a travel industry report. Peak wait times reached a high of 4.5 hours at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport in December 2012. At Miami in April 2013, the peak wait times were 4.7 hours."
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The Case Against Cursive - Bloomberg
"Yet misgivings over the eclipse of cursive-writing instruction are provoking a backlash, with some state legislators overriding decisions to drop the lessons. Most American adults were taught that print writing was a step to cursive, the mark of true literacy. So it’s fair to ask: Will students deprived of this skill be lacking something essential? In a word: no. Literacy, it’s worth remembering, is an evolving concept. For three centuries -- until pocket calculators became common in the mid-1970s -- students had to master the slide rule to quickly solve complex math problems, such as determining a number’s square root. Today, most kids probably couldn’t click on a slide rule even if it were right on the screen in front of them."
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BBC News - Justin Bieber imposter Robert Hunter jailed over child sex videos
"A Middlesbrough man who pretended to be pop singer Justin Bieber to trick children into sending him sex act videos has been jailed for 14 years. "
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Judge rules US can seize New York building tied to Iran | Al Jazeera America
"A judge has ordered the forfeiture of a 36-story office tower in midtown Manhattan, because revenue from it was secretly funneled to a state-owned Iranian bank, U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. The building is co-owned by Alavi Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization that supports Islamic culture in the U.S., and Assa Co., which the U.S. government says is a front company for the Iranian-owned Bank Melli."
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Dubai has 'strongest bid' for Expo 2020 - top official - Travel & Hospitality - ArabianBusiness.com
"A leading official behind the Dubai's bid to host the 2020 World Expo has said the emirate "clearly has the strongest bid". Ahead of a final vote by the Paris-based Bureau of International Expositions (BIE) in November, Helal Saeed Al Marri, a member of the Higher Committee of the Dubai bid, said: "In terms of the vote itself we are in a very, very strong position."
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Kuwait's first PPP power plant to open in 2015 - Energy - ArabianBusiness.com
"Kuwait’s first power plant to be developed under its landmark move into public-private partnerships is set to open by early 2015, it was reported. "
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The American Myth of Cheap Oil and Gas - Bloomberg
"In recent years, U.S. business and political leaders have giddily talked of a “Saudi America” gurgling with domestic oil and gas. It’s true that the U.S. now has access to abundant supplies of cheap domestic gas capable of transforming the U.S. economy. Too bad these same leaders are about to give away a vast chunk of North America’s hydrocarbon production -- and all the strategic advantages that go with it. "
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