The mayor met the train and was dismayed to see that only one Ranger got off.

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Like the 60-something couple I met on an overnight train to Birobidzhan in the Russian Far East, who insisted on readying my bed, giving me whole tomatoes from their garden to eat like apples, and then having "just a bit" of their vodka, amazingly still in a frosted bottle.

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During the trip to Baker Street, the royal party met ticket, maintenance and train staff, including people involved in the restoration of rolling stock.

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Shelida Jones said that when she was leaving Iraq this past weekend, she was thinking of the soldiers she had met from other countries and the Iraqi soldiers she had helped train.

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Mintz first traveled to China in the mid-1980s to train in martial arts and met Wu Bing, a former gymnast.

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Mintz first traveled to China in the mid-1980s to train in martial arts, which is how he met Wu.

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Abassi met regularly with an undercover FBI agent and met with another Tunisian citizen who later was arrested in Canada in the plot to derail the train, they said.

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