On a sunny day, the best table on the island is next to the little babbling waterfall on the patio at Le Moulin de St-Laurent, a 300-year-old flour mill with a menu that changes weekly depending on what local produce is available.

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In Paris, some 300 flights from Charles de Gaulle airport - a quarter of the day's total - were cancelled, along with a similar proportion from Paris Orly.

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Here they can find Angra dos Reis, an area consisting of more than 300 islands, just a half-hour outside Rio de Janeiro.

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Its well-paid pilots (300 of them to fly a mere ten planes) had called Mr de Irala's bluff by refusing to accept a restructuring plan.

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The crew of a TAM Linhas Aereas flight travelling over the area in the other direction shortly after the Airbus' last signal had reported seeing "bright spots" in the ocean about 1, 300 km (800 miles) from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago off Brazil's north-eastern coast.

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Reminders of that terrible day reverberate 1, 300 miles from New York, inside a large, modern brick home on a quiet cul-de-sac just north of Oklahoma City.

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