Where The Curtain First Cracked
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The Iron Curtain first cracked here. No memorial marks Hegyeshalom's role in history.
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Not too long ago, watching a movie in India mostly meant standing in long lines for tickets to spend three hours in a stuffy hall with bug-infested seats, a creaky sound system and a screen sewn up to hide holes.
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Asia Societyâs glinting and glowing show of pre-Islamic art offers windows onto history, past and present.
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By STEPHEN MANNING  COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The next time you walk by a shop window, take a glance at your reflection.
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The power of the sea had twisted the iron fence into crooked angles and plastered it with debris. All was sun-bleached except for a tiny splash of light blue &#151; the corner of a small, laminated card mostly obscured by a jacket of coarse sand and the dried fingers of palm fronds.
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This week, after a $16 million makeover, the full spectacle of the ChÃ¢teau de Versailles finally resumed, with The Hall of Mirrors looking, as closely as possible, the way it first appeared to Louis XIV in 1684.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 8--PASS CHRISTIAN -- If anybody assumes a contractor's house will be the first one repaired -- or rebuilt, they're likely to be wrong.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - When Dee Riddle heard breaking glass inside her central Illinois home on Monday morning, she first thought a bathroom mirror had shattered.
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When Rob Nieweg of the National Trust for Historic Preservation toured the abandoned west campus of old St. Elizabeths Hospital a few years ago, he was eager to explore Hitchcock Hall, the theater for the nation's first federal mental institution. As Nieweg waited to get his bearings in the dingy...
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One of the most complex reframing projects in the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has collided with a 9-foot-3-inch-high doorway. The doorway won.
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 10 -- From the roof of his home just inside the Old City walls, Palestinian landlord Nasser Karain has a view of the valleys and plateaus where scriptures say Solomon built the first Temple, Jesus was betrayed and Muhammad rose to heaven.
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The top spots offering a peek into the past.
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By Jenny Kincaid Boone, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Jun. 15--A yellow curved wall greets customers as they open the door.   This downtown Roanoke office space is modern and vibrant. There are solar shades on the street-level windows.
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As she climbed the final obstacle to her first-ever marathon victory, Constantina Tomescu-Dita couldn&#39;t help looking back - back to her past, back to the ghosts that have plagued her time and time again.
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Feminism breaches walls of the fortress after over 500 years
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The doors were open, inviting the hopefuls to burst through in the way the Statue of Liberty welcomes travelers into nearby New York Harbor. Yesterday, at the National Tennis Center, there were those who bullied their way through the US Open's gates and those who let the door of opportunity slam shut in their faces.