If you yourself decide to risk a visit, be sure to stay at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana, which stubbornly retains its charms in a city of growing decrepitude.

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Mr Howard would not want to risk missing a planned visit to Washington to offer personal support for President George Bush's missile-defence plans, or playing host to a meeting of Commonwealth leaders due in Brisbane in October.

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Normally the better performing schools can expect to be seen once every five years, although Ofsted will use annual risk assessments to decide which ones to visit.

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China has passed a law requiring adult children to visit their elderly parents regularly or risk being sued.

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"I strongly support this campaign and urge as many people as possible during May to visit their local pharmacy to find out their risk of stroke, " said Mr Drakeford.

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Delegates voted overwhelmingly for a campaign urging councils to visit injured staff at home and to carry out a risk assessment of volatile children before staff return to work.

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Wood's teenage daughter, Marissa, said she finds it "horrifying" that her June 2011 visit to get her wisdom teeth extracted may have put her at risk for HIV or hepatitis.

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Under the scheme, staff from the Science Museum will visit Prince's Trust clubs in schools to work with young people at risk of exclusion and under-achievement.

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In some facilities, families drive hundreds of miles to visit their loved ones, only to be forced to "visit" with them via video link in a separate building -- not because they pose a risk, but because the facility does not want to incur additional costs for in-person visits.

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