Travel
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Explore Maine's scenic Vinalhaven Island by ferry and bikeAug 09, 2014 6:00 am - VINALHAVEN ISLAND, Maine - Take a ferry to picturesque Vinalhaven Island in Penobscot Bay off the Maine coast for great biking, good food, beautiful coastal scenery and ...
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On the road: Ed Paschke Art Center opens in Jefferson ParkAug 09, 2014 5:12 am - Chicago More than a Daley grind Get in on a one-time special event from Chicago Detours that will tour artist studios, a factory, warehouse, church and artisanal bakery ...
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Hawaii's storms now more a scare than a threatAug 09, 2014 1:01 am - HONOLULU - The one-two hurricane punch that was supposed to hit Hawaii is looking more like a jab and a missed left hook. After Hawaii cleared Tropical Storm Iselle lar...
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Abandoned horses keep flooding overtaxed rescuesAug 08, 2014 6:01 am - CHINO HILLS, Calif. - Almost every horse rescue in the country is running out of room or money as they continue to be strained by an influx of abandoned equines, a trend...
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Greek isles: Views, beaches, sunsets and crowdsAug 08, 2014 5:45 am - SANTORINI, Greece — Whitewashed houses stacked like sugar cubes on the cliffs. Colorful sunsets and black-sand beaches. Donkeys, windmills and a local winemaking traditi...
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Go for the food: Traverse City, Michigan's HarvestAug 07, 2014 5:45 am - TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Let's face it: In today's hurry-up culture, there always will be a need for fast food. Even when you're enjoying a leisurely vacation in a place l...
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Missing from New Zealand's ski slopes? SnowAug 06, 2014 5:45 am - WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Winter has rolled into its third month in New Zealand, and Nick Jarman says he's going stir crazy as he stares out at the driving rain on the s...
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Elegant Louvre Garden in Paris infested with ratsAug 05, 2014 6:00 am - PARIS — Rats are on the rampage in the elegant garden of the Louvre Museum, so bold they romp on the grass in broad daylight, defying death threats from sanitation worke...
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U.K. museum looks at epic, intimate sides of WWIAug 05, 2014 5:30 am - LONDON - It's an iconic scene of Britain at war: Thousands of Londoners huddled in Underground stations as German bombs rained down. But this is not the 1940s Blitz - it...
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Red ceramic poppies spill from Tower of LondonAug 04, 2014 11:00 pm - LONDON - A blood-red sea of ceramic poppies is spilling from the Tower of London to commemorate British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in World War I on the 100th anni...