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More interesting news from Buenos Aires this week:
Argentine court intervenes in Aerolineas Argentinas [Reuters]
An Argentine court agreed to oversee the day-to-day running of the country’s main airline on Friday amid signs the government is moving to expropriate the carrier from its Spanish owners.
Airline Grab Gains Ground in Argentina [The Wall Street Journal]
An Argentine congressional committee [...]

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Looking for something different to do?  Need to get some aggression out?  Have an old pillow lying around? Well, we may have just the thing for you - Pillow Fight Buenos Aires 2008 (Lucha de Almohadas - Buenos Aires 2008).
Today, November 22, 2008, at 6pm in the Bosques de Palermo at the Dr. Benjamin Gould Planetarium there [...]

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Welcome to the first of a weekly series highlighting some of what I consider to be the more interesting news from Buenos Aires and Argentina.  I find many new things every week and often want to blog about them, but realize that I don’t always have the time to get to them.  Hopefully, with these [...]

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As we previously reported, Google Maps for Argentina launched yesterday.  After some initial testing, we found that the site works pretty for mapping address, but it is still missing some useful features and still has some quirks to be worked out:

Driving directions from point A to point B are unavailable (Google says it needs a [...]

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Unfortunately, work has once again taken over a major part of our lives for the past few weeks, so we’ve been a bit slow on posting any new updates.  I’ve got a few drafts started, but they’ve been on hold while we try and juggle these other projects and Spanish classes.  Let me tell you, running [...]

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