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Sharing the spoils Archeologists and treasure hunters have long warred over the riches from shipwrecks. Three divers from Vermont may have found a way to preserve history and make a profit.
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Bands of turquoise and azure, unruffled by breakers, spread
languidly to the horizon as the Gucci sets out to sea. The guide, a
big Anguillan fisherman named Leander (Bull) Bryan, knows that the
calm seas here in Island Harbour, where he grew up, mean little for
Stoney Bay, the aptly named cove on the other side of Anguilla, where
the Gucci is headed.
Ten years ago, while diving in Stoney Bay, Bryan found the
submerged remains of a late-18th-century Spanish shipwreck.
Inaccessible b...
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Sharing the spoils Archeologists and treasure hunters have long warred over the riches from shipwrecks. Three divers from Vermont may have found a way to preserve history and make a profit.
The Boston Globe
; Bands of turquoise and azure, unruffled by breakers, spread languidly to the horizon as the Gucci sets out to sea. The guide, a big Anguillan fisherman named Leander (Bull) Bryan, knows that the calm seas here in Island Harbour, where he grew up, mean little for Stoney Bay, the aptly named cove on
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El Buen Samaritano Church Celebrates 125 Years
Albuquerque Journal
; * Members of the Methodist church have long histories with the congregation, too Lydia Wright first stepped into El Buen Samaritano United Methodist Church when she was 12. Her father, Dionisio Costales, had retired after serving as pastor of a Methodist church in Belen and it was time to find a
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Protestant church membership is increasing in Mexico.
The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; ... aren't yet very tolerant when it comes to respecting different religions. ___ (c) 2003, The Dallas Morning News. Visit The Dallas Morning News on the World Wide Web at http://www.dallasnews.com/ Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services ...
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Protestant church membership grows in Mexico
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; GUADALAJARA, Mexico - It seemed like a typical Sunday Mass, one of thousands taking place across this nation where the vast majority still call themselves Catholics. The faithful - including the Silva family - knelt, offered one another the sign of peace and lined up for Holy Communion. But it
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Taqueria makes authentic available
The Gazette
; Taqueria El Buen Taco is true joy in eating, a classic breakfastand-lunch hole-in-the-wall where the food's the thing. Every time I've eaten there I've been in line behind diners speaking Spanish, which augurs well for a taco joint. It's in that old "temporary" stripstore complex at Woodmen and
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El Buen Gusto No. 2 now twice as nice: HALF SEAFOOD EATERY, HALF TAQUERIA.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
; ... reviews are conducted anonymously. The Mercury News pays for all meals. Contact Julie Kaufmann ... 278-3447. Copyright (c) 2006, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup ...
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Methodist Church Marks 125th Year
Albuquerque Journal
; Methodists could take a streetcar for church services about 100 years ago. But with mule power pulling the cars, it was faster walking. And a century ago, Hispanic Methodists sometimes were taunted on the way to church and windows were broken during services. "They persevered," said Libby Pacheco,
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Carver Displays God's Laws
Albuquerque Journal
; * Minister says the Ten Commandments should be displayed at churches and synagogues, not public buildings and schools Max Cisneros says he understands the carving problems Moses must have had making the Ten Commandments. But Moses, who carried two stone tablets down Mount Sinai in the movie
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Life Etc: Jailhouse shock Being sent to prison is terrifying enough, but imagine being held in a place where the guards are corrupt, knife attacks rife and you have to pay just to use the toilet. Caroline Kennedy meets two British women trapped in a nightmare in Costa Rica
The Independent on Sunday
; Costa Rica is a paradise, a virtual Garden of Eden " or that is what the tourist brochures lead us to believe. However, nestled in the lush foothills of the mountain ranges overlooking Costa Rica's Central Valley, sits a women-only jail, El Buen Pastor, which is the temporary residence for a
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TORTILLERIA HAS FLOUR POWER.(LIFESTYLE)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
; Byline: Mary Bergin The Capital Times The music is festive, the temperature is about 120 degrees, and the pace is steady. Mix the dough. Coax it through the hopper of a huge machine. Watch the dough flatten and get cut into 6-inch circles. It moves through an oven briefly, then to cooling racks,
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