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Greece s Economy
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Greece's economy should start recovering by the end of the year, Greek Finance Minister Yannis Papathanassiou said on Monday.
Papathanassiou confirmed that Greece expects growth to be close to zero this year. Greece cut its 2009 growth foreca... |
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Queries choke smoking hotline
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| Health Ministry workers manning a special telephone service providing clarifications to owners of bars and restaurants as well as other citizens regarding smoking restrictions introduced yesterday were overwhelmed with more than 10,000 calls between ... |
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Surf city s wireless wave
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"Chilly Sunday morning at Syntagma," Biljana blogged. "After an early morning jog, a no-sugar latte macchiato ... nice way to start the end of this weekend ... Hugs and kiss(inger) from Wi-Fi Syntagma!"
Anybody with any sense of percep... |
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Greek pride shines on despite rain Detroit parade
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Rain wasn't enough to put the brakes on the eighth annual Greek Independence Day parade in Detroit's Greektown on Sunday.
Hundreds of people lined the streets to watch Pegasus floats, and more than 40 groups -- representing Greek Orthodox chur... |
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Italian fashion exhibition
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| The Hellenic-Italian Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute, will be organising business meetings in the sector of fashion, in the framework of the "50 Years of Italian Fashion" exhibition, at which over 100 items... |
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Unburied treasure
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FIVE permanent exhibitions have been added to the National Archaeological Museum to mark the launch of a series of events on the occasion of the museum's 120th anniversary.
Never before displayed, the new exhibits - ceramics, figurines, jewel... |
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TV still eclipsing Internet for news
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| A growing proportion of Greeks are using the Internet as their preferred source of news and information but the World Wide Web still has a long way to go before it can match TV, according to a nationwide survey carried out by the University of the Ae... |
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Sunken Greek treasures at risk from scuba looters
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A corroded mechanism recovered by sponge divers from a sunken wreck near the Greek island of Antikythera in 1902 changed the study of the ancient world forever.
The Antikythera Mechanism, a system of bronze gears fro... |
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Whats in costume
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| CARNIVAL capers seem like fun, but there's more to it than meets the eye. The masquerading is an opportunity to reveal secrets that might otherwise remain concealed. Role-playing can open up a new communicative avenue, provided that parents keep thei... |
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Countdown for Athens 2011 Special Olympics begins
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| Tourism Development Minister Costas Markopoulos represented Greece, the host of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, in the traditional passing of the Special Olympics flag in Idaho, the host of the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games.... |
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The Golden Greek would be so proud
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WHEN he was an entrepreneurial young Adelaide solicitor in the 1980s, Nick Xenophon was fascinated by World Championship Wrestling.
He spent months tracking down retired greats such as Mario Milano and Killer Karl Kox, interviewing the... |
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All options open in education
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Education Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos said yesterday that he is open to changes to the law regulating how universities operate as he continues his efforts to ensure that there is as broad a dialogue as possible on impending reforms.
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The miracle slug
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| George and I were faced with a problem of access at the well-positioned castle of Platamonas in Pieria. Since the castle is bounded on one side by the Aegean and on the other by the Athens-Thessaloniki arterial road, the only way for us to get there ... |
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Athens Academy students reap honors
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During this school year, a number of Athens Academy students received awards from various service and academic organizations.
DAR Good Citizen Award
Senior Blake Sinyard has been selected as the 2008 DAR Good Citizen for... |
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Dont forget shrubs
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| SHRUBS are out of fashion, according to garden design trend setters in London. Currently regarded as little more than amorphous blobs, I am going against the grain on this one as I have always felt that a well-placed shrub is anything but blobby. ... |
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Hatzigakis, farmers negotiations
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| Agricultural Development and Foods Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis, speaking at the end of a meeting with farmers from Thessaly, central Greece, on Wednesday said that the amounts of money to be given to support crucial products will be determined in the... |
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Well Kept Secrets - Athanassia
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SET on the small island of Nisyros and in the city of New York, this ambitious love story attempts to bridge the gap between two very different periods in a smooth co-production that sets new standards for Greek filmmaking.
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Olympus standing tall in seven wonders vote
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Mount Olympus, Greece?s highest peak and the legendary home of the ancient Greek gods, has been selected as one of 261 candidates for the second phase of the worldwide New Seven Wonders of Nature contest.
The mountain was the only Gree... |
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Buried alive on Santorini
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| ABOUT 140 generations ago, a massive explosion shook the Aegean island of Thira (Santorini). It was probably audible as far away as modern Iraq or Southern France. The island, including its capital at Akrotiri - hitherto a bustling centre of Aegean t... |
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Acclaimed dance troupe in Athens
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The acclaimed modern dance company Cloud Gate Dance Theatre from Taiwan is scheduled to perform the successful production 'Moon Water' for four successive nights at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron), from Thursday until Sunday.
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Athens Univ. study on Sat TV
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A study compiled by the University of Athens' mass media and communications faculty, focusing on Greece-based satellite television channels and expatriate Greeks' preferences, was recently unveiled in the Greek capital.
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Athens artists come together to benefit Haiti
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In 1998, members of the Athens-based MOYUBA Afro Caribbean Drum Ensemble visited Haiti to learn as much as possible about the seductive, percussive music they'd been playing for the past three years.
"We tried to get to the real root ... |
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Clytemnestra revived at the Megaron
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| THOUGH US dancer and choreographer Martha Graham never actually gave birth, she is internationally acknowledged as the mother of modern dance. The daughter of a specialist in nervous disorders who early in life found out that movement never lies, she... |
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Liapis in Ancient Olympia
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| Culture Minister Mihalis Liapis inaugurated the first International Conference on the prevention and handling of dangers emanating from natural disasters on International Heritage monuments at Ancient Olympia on Thursday, underlining the work carr... |
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The race to reinvent the wheel
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THEY might not yet be wheel-spinning out of showrooms, but hybrid cars are selling in greater numbers across Greece.
In a climate of rising fuel prices and an ever more heavy-handed approach by environmental policymakers, sales of the ... |
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On patrol with the Greek coastguard
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The Greek coastguard were surprisingly knowledgeable of Scottish football, as we passed the time throughout the night, in the stretch of water between Greece and Turkey.
Eorpa was on patrol with the Greek coastguard as they search for immigra... |
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Acropolis restoration works
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Culture Minister Mihalis Liapis on Thursday inspected works for the restoration of the Athens Acropolis, after which he praised the effort underway.
"The work to preserve and highlight the monuments provides a unique experience for v... |
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Exploring an underwater oasis
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| RESTING some 120 metres down on the seabed just three nautical miles off the Greek mainland, the HMHS Britannic - the less celebrated but equally ill-fated sister ship of the Titanic - could soon become one of Greece's most novel tourist attractions.... |
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Thessaloniki liberation anniversary
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President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias on Sunday attended official celebrations marking the 96th anniversary of Thessaloniki's liberation from Ottoman rule, and the feast day of the city's patron Saint Demetrios.
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Memorial service at El Alamein
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| The 66th anniversary since the Battle of El Alamein in 1942 and the Greeks killed there in the battles against the Axis forces were honoured in a ceremony held at El Alamein on Saturday, in the presence of the ambassadors of Greece, Cyprus and New ... |
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Commissioner Kuneva in Thessaloniki
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| European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs Meglena Kuneva continued a visit to the northern city of Thessaloniki on Friday, where she noted that the European Commission wants to proceed with the establishment of a single EU retail market that will al... |
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Power and glory
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WITH a change of location from stately Zappeio Hall to the former gasworks of Technopolis, the eighth Athens Collections fashion week rebooted and burst forth on October 7 with a younger, edgier look.
Speaking before the dance performa... |
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Rouvas again at Eurovision
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The Greek entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow this May, led by Greek pop performer Sakis Rouvas in his second attempt at the coveted title, was presented by the organisers at Greek state broadcaster ERT on Tuesday.
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Nick Halkias, Poly, soccer
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| Poly sweeper Nick Halkias said his love for soccer emerges from his Greek heritage, something he is as proud of as his success on the field. Halkias, 17, helped the Engineers win the Baltimore city championship last season and has played a major role... |
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Greek support for EU credit deal
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European leaders have decided to act ?decisively and concertedly? to tackle the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis told Greeks yesterday after an emergency meeting in France.
Without revealing details of the meas... |
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Family Law reform bill
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| A bill reforming the current Family Law legislation, tabled in parliament on Thursday by the Justice Ministry, drastically reduces the separation period required for the dissolution of a marriage with an "automatic" (consensual) divorce and the te... |
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The Harvard-Nafplio connection
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| IT'S EARLY autumn in Nafplio. Outside, people are strolling and sitting at cafes, but within one of the harbour's nicest neoclassical buildings Professor Chris Blackwell, British Library conservator David Jacobs and Graz University Library expert Man... |
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8 tenders for top tourism sites
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Tourism Development Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos on Thursday announced the launch of eight new tenders by the Tourism Development Co. (ETA), the completion of two others while another five tenders are in their final stage.
Presenting E... |
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Queen of the slag heaps Hard Candy
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| THE DUST has settled at OAKA Stadium. Madonna has left the building and Athens is left breathless in the afterglow of her savage, tsunamiesque wake. Everything from the klieg lights to the stage extensions to the video projection screens were mega-si... |
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15th Defendory Intl begins
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| The 2008 Defendory International, the "15th Specialised Exhibition of Conventional Systems for National Defence on Land-Sea-Air" was inaugurated on Tuesday at the Hellinikon exhibition centre, site of the former Athens airport, by Deputy Defence M... |
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7th Conference of SETE on tourism
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| World Tourism Organization spokesman Geoffrey Lipman, addressing the first day of the sessions on Monday of the Federation of Greek Tourist Businesses (SETE), on the theme ?Tourism and Development?, said that Greece must utilize its cultural herit... |
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New university
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The country?s 23rd university will be based in Agrinion, western Greece, Education Minister Evripidis Stylianidis said yesterday. The institution, to be called the University of Western Greece, is expected to open by the end of next year.
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Running mad
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IF YOU have to be slightly mad to run the 42.2 kilometres of the Athens Classic Marathon, then logic suggests you have to be absolutely bonkers to take on the somewhat longer distance of 246ks that constitutes the Spartathlon.
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Ghost hunting at Pylos
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| Astronomers, a race of stellar priests-cum-poets of sorts, use electromagnetic radiation - such as light or radio waves - that is emitted by those distant worlds in order to investigate the mysteries of the universe and to explore the evolution of st... |
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Rare 19th century locomotive
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A steam locomotive built in 1894, identified as the only such model left in Europe, will soon be on display at the Thessaloniki Railway Museum, following extensive repair and preservation.
The unique sample of the 19th cen... |
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