LAS VEGAS Agustina Ocampo is the kind of foreign traveler businesses
salivate over.The 22-year-old Argentine recently dropped more than $5,000 on food, hotels
and clothes in Las Vegas during a trip that also took her
to Seattle's Space Needle, Disneyland and the San Diego Zoo. But she
doubts she will return soon."It is a little bit of a headache,"
said Ocampo, a student who waited months to find out whether her
tourist visa application would be approved.More than a decade after the federal
government strengthened travel requirements after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, foreign
visitors say getting a temporary visa remains a daunting and sometimes insurmountable
hurdle.The tourism industry hopes to change that with a campaign to persuade
Congress to overhaul the State Department's tourist visa application process."After 9/11, we
were all shaken and there was a real concern for security, and
I still think that concern exists," said Jim Evans, a former hot
ReutersDec. 26, 2011: Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum
takes a break from pheasant hunting in Adel, Iowa.With 45 percent of
Iowa Republican voters undecided and a roller-coaster ride about to come to
a screeching stop next Tuesday with the GOP caucuses, it may be
Rick Santorum's turn to take the final ascent and surprise the political
class by ... doing better than expected?Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, has
been touted as the sleeper candidate by none other than 2008 Iowa
caucuses winner Mike Huckabee. He has relentlessly campaigned in the state, hitting
all 99 counties and moving his family out there. He has held
350 campaign events in the past year.He has received key endorsements from
well-known social conservatives in the state, and has had solid performances at
each of the debates. And he's running an old-school style campaign that
Iowa voters expect in the retail-style politics of the Hawkeye State.T
children.O'Connor is best known for her smash hit '80s single "Nothing
Compares 2 U," which was written by Prince.
nd he adds, "Recent estimates indicate that veterans comprise about one quarter
of the total adult homeless population."A new foundation would not replace the
many existing organizations that already offer help to veterans. Rather, it would
create a kind of clearinghouse of information to make it easier for
veterans to find help that already exists."Without this type of collaboration," Bennet
says, "in some communities, veterans can fall through the cracks in the
systems that support them."Bennet says a working model for the foundation already
exists in Colorado Springs, a city home to five major military installations.
Retired Air Force Major Gen. G. Wesley Clark (not to be confused
with retired U.S. Army General Wesley K. Clark who ran for President
in 2004) says the Colorado Springs region is a community that understands
the needs of America's veterans."Well I think it's important to understand up
front that in the United States approximately only 1 percent (
Fox16.comDawna Natzke, 46, was last seen seen Dec. 21 leaving a Christmas
party in Hot Springs Village.Authorities are searching for a missing Arkansas police
dispatcher after finding her burned vehicle abandoned in the Ouachita National Forest.Dawna
Natzke, a 46-year-old mother of three, was last seen seen Dec. 21
leaving a Christmas party in Hot Springs Village, where she worked as
a police dispatcher, Fox affiliate KLRT-TV reported.Police found the charred remains of
Natzke's 1997 teal green Ford Escort Wagon three days later off Arkansas
Highway 298 in the Ouachita National Forest. The vehicle has been sent
to a state crime lab, according to the station.Dog teams were reportedly
called to search the area Monday, but uncovered no trace of the
missing woman.Natzke is described as 5-foot-6 with brown hair with blonde highlights
and brown eyes.Anyone with information on Natzke's whereabouts is being urged to
call the Hot Springs Village Police at (501)922-0011.
ie Battley Gingrich responded to the judge by saying she did not
desire one at this time although she had adequate and ample grounds
for divorce.Gingrichs campaign website officially quotes the candidates daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman,
on questions about his first divorce: It was her mother that requested
the divorce, not Newt.Asked about the apparent contradiction at a media avail
in Dubuque, Gingrich declined to comment, emphasizing that the divorce was 30-years-old.You
can read my younger daughter's column and talk to her, he said.
She covered it more than I could have and that's all I'm
going to say."Callista, Gingrichs third wife and twenty years his junior, was
in familiar territory during her debut at the campaign mic. A former
student at Luther College, she told the audience she had lived on
the floor above the Mabe's Pizza her senior year.Since 2005, the Gingrich
Foundation has annually gifted $25,000 to Luther College for the Newt L.
and Callista
