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Palawan’s Pride

MANILA, Philippines — With 25 million text messages from the “text capital of the world” plus 20 million on-line votes, Puerto Princesa’s underground river – PPUR – is now officially one of the 7 New Wonders of the World. So it’s not a Unesco project –? Mayor Ed Hagedorn made the same snobbish comment when he first learned of the competition in 2007. But when prideful...