Travel
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New York wants even more visitorsJan 21, 2012 5:00 am - New York — Just days after cheering the arrival of the record-breaking 50 millionth visitor of the year to New York City, officials are starting over and counting from o...
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On the road: Art Institute offers free daysJan 15, 2012 5:00 am - Chicago Home is where the art is The holidays are over, but the Art Institute of Chicago has one more gift for Illinoisans. The museum is once again offering f...
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Steamboat Springs revels in winter funJan 15, 2012 5:00 am - STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — If you think Ski Town USA is only about the skiing, think again. Winter in Steamboat Springs can be a time to try everything from fly-fishing ...
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More people skiing and snowboardingJan 14, 2012 7:00 am - The relationship between skiers and snowboarders might still be a bit icy at times, but a versatile group has discovered there's more than one way to get down the mounta...
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Tasmania a nature lover's dreamJan 08, 2012 5:00 am - HOBART, Tasmania — Last March, I embarked on a mini-road trip around Tasmania, the island off the southeast corner of Australia that is about the size of West Virginia. ...
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On the road: Theater seriesJan 08, 2012 5:00 am - Chicago Theater's in session The theater lab series, In the Works, returns to Chicago's Millennium Park for a third season and opens with “TUTA Theatre Chicago's Fulton ...
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Guatemalan town becomes folk-art havenJan 07, 2012 5:00 am - Last spring, I gave a college lecture on my 30-year passion for folk-art collecting. Afterward, a student approached me with a question: Would I ever quit? It seemed lik...
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Coal country sees tourism potential in W.Va.Jan 07, 2012 5:00 am - MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Some of the bloodiest and most important moments in the American labor movement happened in the coalfields of southern West Virginia. But most who li...
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Texas Gulf Coast welcomes retirees with open armsJan 07, 2012 5:00 am - ROCKPORT, Texas — Linda Vander Woude spent one winter in Florida — and then headed West. The price of staying in Florida's popular Fort Myers area when her husband's jo...
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Travelers ready to hit the road in 2012Jan 01, 2012 5:00 am - NEW YORK — The Olympics, the centennial of the Titanic sinking, new rules on travel to Cuba, a once-a-decade horticultural festival in the Netherlands and increased reli...