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Is It Safe to Travel to the Bahamas? Here’s What You Need to Know.

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Drawn by clear turquoise waters and miles of white-sand beaches, around seven million travelers visit the Bahamas each year, but a new warning about increased violence on the island nation has raised alarm over the safety of visiting there. Embassy in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, issued a security alert advising U.S.

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U.S. Warns Spring Breakers Headed to Mexico, Jamaica or the Bahamas

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Embassies have issued new and updated advisories urging travelers to Mexico, Jamaica and the Bahamas — some of the busiest international spring break destinations — to exercise extra caution after recent violent events, some in tourist areas. In the Bahamas, gang violence and a number of murders prompted U.S. The post U.S.

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From Intel Intern to Inventor of the Year

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Chau hired Kavalieros as a summer intern in 1994 when he was pursuing his Ph.D. He grew up in the Bahamas, then moved to Florida for high school and college. And, says Draeger, Kavalieros is certainly not done: His work is part of still-undisclosed transistor advances in Intel's future product pipeline.

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Climate Talks End In Copenhagen Accord; Countries Settle On Non- Binding 2 ºC Warming Limit

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” Already the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases by most accounts, China may have been looking to future negotiations, when it is likely to be categorized as a developed rather than developing country. After presidents, premiers, and prime ministers departed, COP 15 reconvened so that delegates could vote on the accord.

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Can the World’s Largest Cruise Ship Really Be Climate-Friendly?

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According to Royal Caribbean, the ship, which is registered in the Bahamas, also sets a new standard for sustainability with the use of energy-efficient technology designed to minimize the ship’s carbon footprint and move closer to the company’s goal of introducing a net-zero ship by 2035. as a viable marine fuel. People will say L.N.G.

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Satellite Imagery for Everyone

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These underwater sand dunes adorn the seafloor between Andros Island and the Exuma islands in the Bahamas. And financial-investment firms use satellite imagery to evaluate such things as retailers’ future profits based on parking-lot fullness or to predict crop prices before farmers report their yields for the season.

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