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    <title><![CDATA[St Kitts and Nevis]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The St Kitts Scenic Railway circles the island’s cloud-covered peak, Mount Liamuiga, carrying hordes of tourists, its schedules revolving around the near-daily influx of giant cruise ships. The  railway used to transport the island’s lucrative sugar-cane crop but the  Government of the twin island state finally abandoned its 350-year-old sugar  industry in 2005, after years of subsidizing it due to low world market prices,  high production costs and the European Union’s restructuring of sugar import  quotas.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2008-11-01T21:58:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Tanzania is home to the highest point in Africa as well as to Olduvai Gorge, where some of the oldest human remains have been found. It also contains most of the Serengeti region, which hosts a dazzling array of animal, bird and plant life.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2008-10-01T03:43:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Since independence in 1966, Botswana’s annual growth rates have been the highest in the world – bar none. It is estimated that were it not for the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, growth rates would be one or two per cent higher today.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2008-09-01T00:10:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Dominica is a small island both in population and size. Yet the island feels a lot bigger than this, with dozens of mountain peaks, waterfalls and some say a river for every day of the year.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2008-08-01T22:01:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Timor-Leste]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Timor-Leste’s landscape is still deeply scarred from the conflict that raged in 1999, after the Timorese population voted for independence from Indonesia.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2008-07-01T23:09:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[In the heart of Central Asia, enclosed by the Pamir mountains to the southeast and desert in the northeast, Uzbekistan was once the seat of vast wealth and influence.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Uruguay]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[It was the meddling British who used their cartographic skills to delineate the country that would become Uruguay in the early 19th century, as a buffer zone between the two regional giants, Argentina and Brazil. The result was a country stuck in the shado]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Living in Lebanon is like watching a dramatic thriller unfold. At times it’s exciting, at other times heart-wrenching or just petrifying.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2008-04-01T01:28:00-0700</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is a little hole on the wall of every office, restaurant, reception area, hotel lobby, shop – even in  the humblest of the living rooms – which serves as a formidable metaphor for  the vicissitudes of power, prestige and privilege in Brunei.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2008-03-01T17:58:00-0800</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[A nation of extremes.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[As the forces of corporate globalization press on its borders, change is inevitable.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2007-12-01T04:11:00-0800</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Experimenting with capitalism in Cuba]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Over two decades of conflict have bred a climate of impunity where human rights violations – killings and unexplained ‘disappearances’ of people – have become all too common.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Costa Rica stands apart from its Central American neighbours, not least because it has no army.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A small landlocked state in central Africa, sandwiched between its vast neighbours Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi has suffered as much from ethnic conflict as its other (equally tiny) neighbour, Rwanda. Yet while the 1993 Rwandan genocide continues to commandeer international attention, Burundi’s travails tend to slip under the radar.]]></description>
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