Instead, check into the creaky old Palmyra Hotel where luminaries including Jean Cocteau and General de Gaulle once slept, and explore the spectacular ruins of ancient Heliopolis - the "Sun City" - whose Temples of Bacchus and Jupiter hold their own among the Mediterranean's finest.

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The recent selloff seemed to suggest that Family Dollar is only having a brief time in the recessionary sun, and that its growth will slow markedly as soon an economic recovery takes hold.

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Behind them, 20, 000 kids hold picture books, flipping the pages to create enormous mosaics, of a rising sun, of fighters going into battle, of the North Korean flag.

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"We told them that if they didn't take hold of their customers' digital identities, someone else would, " says Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief strategist.

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