It was also an outpost of the Venetian empire in the 15th century: a Venetian tower dominates the view of the site from a distance.

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Northern Tales tour company picks up guests at their hotels and takes them a short distance outside Whitehorse to view the auroras from heated, walled tents.

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It is the investing approach of the day, meaningful mostly because fund managers want to distance themselves from the widely held view that unit trusts in Asia used to concentrate more on industries than companies, letting the region's strong growth pull them along regardless of the inherent quality of the companies selected.

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Calderon has tried to capitalize on that, calling himself the disobedient son, in order to distance himself from Fox, who some here view as a disappointment.

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Under President Hosni Mubarak Egypt used to take the same view, but the new government has moved quickly to distance itself from Israel, helping broker the Palestinian reconciliation deal last week.

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But despite the cacophony of animal sounds coming from below, the canopy is dense and the view stretches for such a distance that visitors may spend a couple of hours on the walkway and see very little.

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