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Gore's attack on U.S. drugmakers shows ignorance of history _ and economics.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services)
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WASHINGTON _ Al Gore, the man who "invented the Internet," should try using it a little more. Particularly, the history sites.
After a week of bashing Big Oil _ not easy when you control $500,000 worth of Occidental Petroleum stock _ the Vice President zeroed in on Big Drugs during a Fourth of July weekend appearance in St. Louis.
Criticizing a House-passed Republican bill that encourages insurance companies to offer prescription drug coverage to seniors, Gore called it "Potemkin" legislation advanced by an industry hoping to reap a windfall.
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A cool half million for Antarctic huts trust.(Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott's hut to be protected )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; ...Island in Antarctica used by Sir Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Falcon Scott...assistance to help conserve Shackleton's Hut at Cape Royds, but...Dance's grandfather was Shackleton's brother-in-law.
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EDITOR'S LETTER.(overview; explorations by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Geographical
; ...explorers, such as Scott and Shackleton, has never been greater. Although...beaten to the South Pole, while Shackleton's greatest journey was made...round-the-world yacht race. Sir Chay Blyth and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston explain...
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SHACKLETON'S TRIP: A NEW LOOK AT THE ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...history is an understatement. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic...and remarkable tenacity. The Shackleton expedition and rescue, documented...documentary "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition...
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Branagh brings Shackleton's amazing journey to life
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; Branagh brings Shackleton's amazing journey to life Some...less abandoned his children. But Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer, continuesto...out, against unbelievable odds. Shackleton was a classic quixotic character...
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 "Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)")
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Following in the heroic footsteps of shackleton ; Adescendant of the sea captain who helped Sir Ernest Shackleton avoid a watery grave at the South Pole is training to follow in the icy footsteps of his famous ancestor.
Newspaper article from: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
; ...sea captain who helped Sir Ernest Shackleton avoid a watery grave...Army Lieutenant Colonel Henry Worsley is leading a team of men descended from Shackleton's original arctic pioneers...Gow and shipping lawyer Henry Adams will join Colonel...
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In shackleton's footsteps ; An explorer and his team of Sir Ernest Shackleton descendents have set off in their attempt to complete the famous explorer's failed Antarctic expedition.
Newspaper article from: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
; ...explorer and his team of Sir Ernest Shackleton descendents have set...Lieutenant Colonel Henry Worsley, 46, from Hereford...from the hut built by Shackleton's men at Cape Royds...route which explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton took in 1914...
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Descendants of Sir ernest shackleton and his team aim to reach south pole on centenary of his failed expedition ; The journey is going to be gruelling and packing space is at a premium but six descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team who hope to complete his failed polar mission have found room for whisky and cigars to celebrate if they reach the South Pole.
Newspaper article from: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
; ...but six descendants of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team who hope...mark the centenary of Shackleton's expedition by finishing...Army Lieutenant Colonel Henry Worsley, from Hereford...but went on to become Shackleton's skipper on the Endurance...
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Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure Navigates Its Way To Henry Ford Museum's IMAX Theatre Friday, June 22.
PR Newswire
; ...steps of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 British...Antarctic Expedition in Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure showing at Henry Ford Museum's IMAX...the hazardous journey of Shackleton's ship, the Endurance...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Branagh blows in from the cold for TV drama; Belfast's Kenneth Branagh plays Sir Ernest Shackleton in a television drama about the great adventurer's 1914-15 Antartica expedition. IAN STARRETT reports on the four-hour tale that promises to be a highlight of the New Year holiday TV schedules.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...Byline: IAN STARRETT SIR Ernest Shackleton was proud to be Anglo...played Shakespeare's Henry V, was chosen to play...leadership and he admires what Shackleton did. "What appealed...changing experience." Sir Ernest Shackleton died in 1922...
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Shackleton's descendants follow footsteps to South Pole
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; DESCENDANTS of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team are set to complete...at a time. Led by Lt-Col Henry Worsley, a relation of Shackleton's skipper Frank Worsley...Worsley, 47, is joined by Henry Adams, 33, and David Cornell...
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