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Kenya's 2012 tourism earnings to dip on euro crisis, attacks

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's white sandy beaches look set to have fewer visitor footprints meandering over them this year. - Reuters - 266 Reads

Greek winemakers see crisis as glass half-full

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Greek winemakers are not pricing their wares in drachmas - yet. - Reuters - 18 Reads

Spirited Traveler: Dawa, Nairobi's "medicinal" cocktail

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Dawa" means "medicine" in Swahili, as in "I need dawa for my headache." It is also the name of a refreshing cocktail found in Nairobi - and on a hot afternoon, it sounds like just what the doctor ordered. - Reuters - 14 Reads

Japanese lesbian can't wait for Disneyland "wedding"

TOKYO (Reuters) - Like many Japanese women, Koyuki Higashi adores Tokyo Disneyland. So it was only natural that she would want to hold her wedding there, as many other couples have done. - Reuters - 14 Reads

Okada bets to win with fine dining and casinos

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Kazuo Okada, the Japanese billionaire engaged in a fierce legal battle with Las Vegas casino tycoon Steve Wynn, is diversifying his pachinko company with a string of his own restaurants and is negotiating to build a casino resort in South Korea. - Reuters - 15 Reads

Sorkin says Jobs movie won't be straight biography

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin hasn't yet figured out how to put the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on the silver screen, but he is certain it's not going to be a straightforward biography. - Reuters - 23 Reads

Scottish jewelry show commemorates Norway tragedy

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The 77 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway last year have been commemorated in a display of specially commissioned jewelry which opened on Friday at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. - Reuters - 11 Reads

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Virginia, Florida have most well-read cities in U.S.: poll

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C., is the most well-read city in the United States. - Reuters - 20 Reads

World Chefs: Playful Aduriz masters culinary mind games

TORONTO (Reuters) - Basque chef Andoni Aduriz, the culinary conjurer behind one of the top-ranked restaurant in the world, enjoys a good gag as he lets his imagination run wild at Mugaritz, set in the hills outside San Sebastian in northern Spain. - Reuters - 17 Reads

Nepal "blind" eatery lights way for visually impaired

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A line of diners, holding on to the shoulders of the person in front of them, enters the pitch dark hall at Nepal's first blind restaurant, which treats guests to food they can smell, touch and taste but not see. - Reuters - 14 Reads

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