West Virginia town wins best tasting water in contest
Yucca Valley California earned top honors in the municipal water category at the International Water Tasting competition in Berkeley Springs defeating 45 rivals from 25 states. Desert Hot Springs Atlantic City Charleston and Calistoga also scored in the event with Halstead Spring Water earning best uncarbonated bottled water. France Italy and Bosnia participated.
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Ice Pool World Championship opens with 1200 ice swimmers
Competitors from 18 countries braved near freezing Baltic waters in the Ice Pool Swimming World Championships, the first edition, racing in 25 and 50 yard events across age groups. The event featured a six person ice-hole start near a stadium built for the 1952 Olympics as wind and cold heightened the spectacle.
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Forgotten Americans Memoir Prompts Siberian Detention Claims
A new memoir by a Russian emigre supports a long running Pentagon inquiry that U S servicemen from World War II and the Korean War were detained by Russia and imprisoned in Siberian labor camps.
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Memoir to claim US troops held in Siberian camps by Soviets
Pentagon researchers study a Russian émigré memoir alleging 22 American servicemen vanished into Gulag camps in 1951 near the Kirovskij mining camp in Krasnoyarsk. The translator cites a witness describing frostbitten prisoners fed along a road to an unknown destination, with one name potentially matching Chan Jay Park Kim of the 24th Infantry Division.
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Pope ends Egyptian visit at Mount Sinai site
Pope John Paul II completed his Egypt visit with a lengthy prayers at St Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai. He lingered beside Moses drinking well over an hour, meeting guardedly with the 22 Greek Orthodox monks, and preparing future interfaith outreach during his next leg in Israel, Jordan, and Palestinian territories.
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United Muslim factions join at Saviors Day rally
Farrakhan and W Deen Mohammed shared a stage in Chicago marking a rare reconciliation between Orthodox Muslims and the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan urged unity with Mohammed as both leaders emphasized Islam’s broader American cause despite years of division.
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Actors Contemplate Fame As They Promote Film Roles
Toni Collette fears Oscar emphasis on awards and glamorous trappings while promoting The Sixth Sense. Tobey Maguire discusses life beyond stardom and Wonder Boys in Harper's Bazaar. Michael Douglas reflects on image versus work and Forest Whitaker describes a code guiding his life. Hootie and the Blowfish weigh charity golf tour plans amid NAACP boycott debate.
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South Carolina golf tourney aids minority scholarships
Bryan Dean Felber and Darius Rucker join NAACP call for flag removal as the tourney, featuring John Daly Ernie Els Dan Marino Kevin Sorbo and Alexi Lalas, raises over 1 million dollars in six years for minority scholarships. The U S band members from the University of South Carolina attended. The tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand says adults deserve full information for decisions while noting doubt that full disclosure will happen.
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