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more smart hotels sprang up including the phoenicia even more luxurious than the st george. but when the holiday inn arrived in one nine hundred seventy four it was not only the tallest but also the last to open before the civil war broke out. i remember the experience of the phoenicia and i went into the holiday in different scales of hotel that both of them pretty luxury of hotels the phoenicia was very grand indeed the holiday inn was a holiday inn but a very upmarket holiday instead of us plenty of chrome plenty of silver plenty of gold colored drapes it was done very much in the style that the arab world likes morning khalifi the lisa rose. and of sun had a fair saddle to soften the honey but i let me come so orders over there had a bill and the billy something i sorely embers. this friend or lonely day indiana came. to see the evil of man my friend was pretty bad the fair. land the city can hear howzat good helen is a. short man believe it had a bill and he can feel inside me the only be elaborately breach. of us and i can leave it to another can time but it is only wh

i was coming to the phoenicia since the beginning. is a very special hotel. mona ross is an international model who was based in beirut before the war. wow. mona ross, take a seat. now she is a permanent resident of the hotel. it's part of my life. i consider i'm a part of the columns of the phoenicia. you are part of the furniture. part of the furniture! part of the fabric of the whole hotel! when the war came, the hotel became a battle ground, a key strategic point because of its size and downtown location. i was passing by next to the phoenicia when it was destroyed. and i saw a little hibiscus plant with little red flowers on it, and i was so touched by this. i couldn't believe my eyes, why this plant was alive in front of this hotel that was dead. today, a generation of young lebanese are determined to shake the dust and debris from the city's reputation. and it's the nightlife that's really putting beirut back on the map. the music hall is one of the capital's most famous venues, hosting a cabaret packed with an eclectic mix of

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in the west of the city the strategic port and the hotel district including the cent george the phoenicia the hilton and the holiday inn. on the twenty fourth of october one thousand nine hundred seventy five leftwing muslim militias and palestinian armed groups under the umbrella of the national movement launched a massive offensive to try and regain control of the hotel district which straddled east and west. with the battle of the hotel's one hundred seventy five nine hundred seventy six was was simply a battle for control of the strategic heights and who controlled the strategic heights kids essentially dictate terms so controlling these buildings in the hotel district the high rise buildings became extremely important for the militias. which was central. i don't know what an old lady was over that and when i was hit by the sun george would release. the militia fighters started moving upwards and they started going on top of towers one e's bush on more and other one is only day and. a few days into the battle of the hotels the guests are completely abandon the entire district and evac

it is about two people's -- teachers in phoenicia. his coworker learned a few months ago he's an exact man's to donate. -- match to donate. ktvu's claudine wong takes it to transplant they. -- day. >> we are ready to go. >> yeah, i'm you know, i'm definitely in god's hands. >> reporter: and for eli stands. they check in uc davis medical center. >> can you believe it is transplant day today? you are going to cry. [ laughter ] >> no, i can't believe it. just waiting each and every day in i just take life as it happens. it is really it. >> reporter: so the day began with tears and paperwork and more tears. >> your husband got a little loopy. >> i know! he was here reading admissions and started crying. >> it is an emotional today hugs and trust and friendship guided through admission, and so has his belief that they were meant to be in each other's lives. joe and eli are both elementary school teachers in phoenicia. they and their wives were a tight group before joe knew he was a match. since they found out, their bond has just grown str

was at the heart of its a luxury tourism economy and in its heyday hotels like this and george the phoenicia on the holiday inn were full of wealthy tourists businessman journalists diplomats and the occasional spies. travelers on a tighter budget stayed at hotels like the commodore and in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. it became host to the world's media when the lebanese civil war erupted. in one nine hundred seventy a young arab millionaire use of mizzle took the commodore hotel on a twenty year lease from the kuwaiti royal family. in a zone was a leading investor in the hotel industry in the region and responsible for attracting thousands of tourists to lebanon. mohammed should borrow words with ms ali in ticketing and still runs a travel agency near the commodore with the same name. but that. one. it was the those that are fundamental couple phone book atlantic. or canal if up the telephone or the office. but the luxury beirut lifestyle obscured the gap between rich and poor that was white new york the time. the international press used beirut as a barometer of what was happening i

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it is a place called elysium phoenicia. it is located near the equator north of gale crater, not too far from curiosity rover. the team calls it the biggest parking lot on mars. it is a place that is safe, got plenty of sunshine, that will power solar instruments to study the interior of mars. >> what is inside mars? we know a lot about what is inside earth, but on mars we have scratched the surface. to learn how mars formed, we have is that deep interior. nasa's insight lander was designed to do just that by taking the planet's vital signs, listening to its poles for seismic activity, including marsquakes, taking its temperature to see how much heat is flowing from inside, and checking its reflexes to see how much the planet wobbles as it cooks around the sun. these provide clues to what the planet is like inside. what is inside mars? insight can help us out by giving mars its first thorough checkup since it formed 4.5 billion years ago. the more we learn, the better we will understand the planets and the history of our so

. >> reporter: he's now the owner of a vintage store in phoenicia.ed as a california highway officer for two decades. he was forced to retire in 2016 after years of harassment and discrimination because he is gay. >> i followed the rules, and still i was ostracized and not backed up. and it cost me physical and mental health problems. >> reporter: the 54-year-old says the harassment started and he joined the academy in 1996. >> the worst thing that happened to me was we were training one day, and the other cadet put a gun to my head and said i know you're gay. tell me you're gay and i will pull the trigger. during training, and i think of that every single day. >> reporter: he said the discrimination continued into his first assignment in the san francisco office. he says he crossed a thin line thereby descending lesbian subject -- >> they defaced my name tag where we would sign up for cars. >> reporter: he conjured -- transferred finally to send lamar county. >> officers refused to respond. >> reporter: he said he coped with the harassment by blocki