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As Myanmar opens, hoteliers see prospects

Travellers hoping to catch a glimpse of the glittering Shwedagon Pagoda or hear the tinkly temple-bells of Kipling's Road to Mandalay might one day be able to book into a Westin or a Marriott.
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Garth Brooks Snags $1M Hospital Lawsuit, Revenue of Two Vegas Shows from Superstar

Why Hospital Lawsuit Win Means Nothing to Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks, one of the most popular stars in country music history, will be receiving $1 million from an Oklahoma hospital that failed to build a women's health center in honor of the country star's deceased mother. The amount is roughly half of the revenue generated from one of Brooks' shows at the Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, which charges $225 per ticket before tax.
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High Speed Rail: 5 Things to Know About Proposals To Install it in the U.S.

President Barack Obama is on record as proposing a high-speed rail system that will, within 25 years, serve 80 percent of Americans. And Washington's 2012 budget shows the the president is putting his money -- or at least taxpayer money -- where his mouth is. Here is 5 things to know about the project.
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Uggie the Dog: Is “The Artist” Star the Biggest 2012 Oscar's Snub? [PHOTOS]

Uggie the dog, the nine-year-old Jack Russell Terrier, will accompany his co-stars of the Oscar nominated film, The Artist, to the 2012 Academy Awards. Although the film has been nominated for ten awards, including Best Picture and Actor in a Leading Role, Uggie the dog was not nominated for an award. Some critics believe the skilled pup was snubbed.
A microscopic view shows a colony of human embryonic stem cells (light blue) growing on fibroblasts (dark blue) in this handout photo released to Reuters by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, March 9, 2009.

First Patients Shown to Improve with Embryonic Stem Cells

Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse.

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