Once you have shopped within a whisker of your luggage allowance, grab a Lebanese mezze lunch outdoors at Cafe Layali Zaman on the Corniche (look for the "Baguette" sign), where the hummus is perfectly garlicky, the baba ganoush a smoky, aubergine dream and you might choose to accompany your Arabic coffee with a sweet-scented shisha water-pipe.

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With mortgage rates still historically very low and the market stabilizing, you might want to go shopping now for your dream home while prices offer excellent value and the risk of losing money is far less than several years ago.

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You might remember the first space expeditions which realized the marriage of technology and the American Dream.

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