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EDITORS: A November 19 article slugged TICKET-KING by the Toronto Globe and Mail and distributed by the Scripps Howard News Service described how much money Jet Set Sports paid to secure ticket monopolies from VANOC and the U.S. Olympic Committee. This information should have been attributed to the Seattle Times newspaper.

In a humid faux-tropical haven set in a Toronto basement and lit with near-blinding artificial sunlight, Herbert Kronzucker has begun to save the world.

VANCOUVER - A flamboyant, wheeler-dealer millionaire is the undisputed ticket king of the Olympics.

For millionaire Sead Dizdarevic, it's a brand-new, above-board world

CALGARY, Alberta - Sherri and Tom Milley were exhausted by the weepy weeknight struggles over math problems and writing assignments with their three school-aged children. They were fed up with rushing home from soccer practice or speed skating only to stand over their kids tossing out answers so they could finish and get to bed.

A Canadian Indian tribe in Labrador says they have killed 64 caribou in an area closed to hunting in what some call a brazen assertion of their traditional rights.

GUANGZHOU, China - For decades, China's citizens have lived with the controversial one-child regime imposed on them by the government. Now, pet lovers in this southern factory city are frothing over the latest official intrusion into their lives: a one-dog policy.

BEIJING - Was Mao Zedong the Abraham Lincoln of China?

In an attempt to convince President Barack Obama of its claim to Tibet, the Chinese government has likened the 1959 Communist takeover of the area to the American Civil War, inferring that Mao freed Tibetans from slavery much as Lincoln ended slavery in the United States.

KABUL - First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market.

Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast U.S. military bases by the name of the current American president, a modest counterweight to his Nobel Peace Prize.

The humble potato has become the symbol of a new revolution sweeping Cuba.

The vegetable has been eliminated from the thick brown ration books that Cuban nationals relied on for nearly 50 years to purchase government-subsidized groceries, part of the socialist country's attempt to ensure equal access to such staples as rice, beans and cooking oil.

Whalers, beware -- the Ady Gil is hardly your typical environmental activist vessel.