Travel
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Santa Fe: 5 free things for visitors to doMay 16, 2014 5:30 am - SANTA FE, N.M. - There's no doubt this capital city has truly earned its nickname as The City Different. Its skyline is not made of skyscrapers, but rather a collection ...
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Head to the Quad Cities for an affordable family vacationMay 15, 2014 5:30 am - The Quad Cities of Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline/East Moline, Illinois, tend to get a bad rap in the Chicago area. But the four towns on eit...
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Coit Tower reopens in S.F.May 15, 2014 1:01 am - San Francisco's landmark Coit Tower reopened to the public Wednesday after a six-month, $1.7 million upgrade that included the restoration of its famed murals. Scores of...
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Sept. 11 museum opens to relatives and survivorsMay 15, 2014 1:00 am - NEW YORK — Tears in her eyes, firefighter widow Maureen Fanning emerged Thursday from the new Sept. 11 museum deep beneath ground zero, unable to bring herself to look a...
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Campers eager to enjoy South Dakota parksMay 14, 2014 5:45 am - GARRETSON, S.D. - After a brutal winter in this northern climate, Alan and Patricia Zwart were more than ready for early-season camping. But spring has not been particul...
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9/11 museum offers sights and sounds of tragedyMay 14, 2014 1:01 am - By turns chilling and heartbreaking, a place of both deathly silence and distressing sounds, the National September 11 Memorial Museum opens this week deep beneath groun...
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16 lives lost, but Everest still callsMay 13, 2014 5:30 am - Suburban man's climb canceled amid tragedy
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Miami's Little Havana serves up dose of nostalgiaMay 13, 2014 5:30 am - MIAMI - Once a refuge for Cuban exiles rekindling the tastes and sounds of a lost homeland, today Miami's Little Havana is a mosaic of cultures and a popular tourist des...
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Atlantic City tries to reshape tourism imageMay 11, 2014 6:31 am - ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Volleyball Olympians, boxing matches between police and firefighters, a sand-sculpting competition, free concerts on the beach and daredevil plane...
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The best time to book the cheapest flightsMay 11, 2014 6:09 am - NEW YORK - Booking a flight is often confusing, annoying and frustrating. Prices fluctuate so frequently that most vacationers can't tell if they are getting a good deal...