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Spectacle Island has a swimming beach, five miles of walking trails dotted with gazebos, and a panoramic vista from the highest point in Boston Harbor. It’s hard to believe that underneath all this is an 80-foot-high mound of trash.

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The four clocks behind the reception desk of Berlin’s new budget hotel Ostel show the hour in Moscow, Berlin, Havana, and Beijing. Time, however, appears to have stopped here sometime before 1989, when communism was still entrenched in all four capitals.

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Less than a tenth of China’s pilots meet international aviation English standards, the airline regulator said on Tuesday, encouraging them to rise to the challenge of bolstering their linguistic skills.

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A message to visitors to Venice: No bare torsos in St. Mark’s Square. No lounging on the monuments. And no feet dangling in the canals.

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