Travel
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Go for the food: Rhode Island's taste of summerMay 11, 2014 5:45 am - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - If summer in Rhode Island has a taste, it's lemon - or, rather, Del's Frozen Lemonade. The lemony slush is nothing fancy: It's made of water, sugar, l...
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Upstate N.Y.: Home to great art in unexpected placesMay 10, 2014 5:30 am - CANAJOHARIE, N.Y. — Winslow Homers in the shadow of a defunct Beech-Nut baby food plant. A Rembrandt, Picasso, Rubens and Renoir up the hill from a paper mill. The found...
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On the road: SEALs photos on exhibit at Pritzker museumMay 10, 2014 5:30 am - Chicago Signed, sealed, delivered "SEAL: The Unspoken Sacrifice" photography exhibit at The Pritzker Military Museum & Library offers a rare glimpse into the post-9/11 w...
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Take a stroll in these Istanbul neighborhoodsMay 10, 2014 5:30 am - ISTANBUL — Istanbul, the noisy metropolis on the Bosporus Strait lauded by many a travel ranking, has much more to offer than grand mosques and bazaars. Away from the di...
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5 free things for visitors in Birmingham, Ala.May 09, 2014 5:30 am - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama's largest city is making a comeback after decades of dormancy, and there's plenty of free stuff for visitors to see and do in the new Birmingh...
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Go for the food: Athens, Ohio, diner a must-tasteMay 08, 2014 5:30 am - ATHENS, Ohio - There's a reason there is almost always a wait at the Court Street Diner here. The menu is heavy on simple favorites: thick slabs of meatloaf, fries piled...
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Digging into the cityscape of PeoriaMay 04, 2014 5:30 am - The movie theater started to rumble and shake as if a giant were stomping his feet. Despite the quaking, I had no reason to be alarmed. I was sitting inside a life-size ...
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On the road: Make a card for Mother's DayMay 03, 2014 5:45 am - Chicago Every beat of her art Enjoy some of the South Side's offerings at Second Sunday, a drop-in event for families featuring arts and crafts projects at the Hyde Park...
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Alternatives to coach might not be that badMay 03, 2014 5:45 am - What do you inhale at 35,000 feet? Almost nothing if you're a teenager curled up in the wheel well of a Boeing 767. In case you missed it, a teenager jumped the fence a...
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5 free things in Glasgow, from gardens to museumsMay 02, 2014 5:30 am - GLASGOW, Scotland - The image of Scotland's largest city as a hard and dirty industrial center is long gone. Instead, this former European Capital of Culture is now wide...