Travel
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Biking the scenic - and mostly flat - trails along the Massachusetts shoreSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - WELLFLEET, Mass. - Cycling Cape Cod in the summer is like experiencing an ice cream cone; you'll wait in line, be surrounded by kids and end up sticky. But bike riding t...
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Hodge podge of old and new Tokyo can be enjoyed on a budgetSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - TOKYO - One of the most fascinating things about Tokyo is the way it combines both the ancient and the modern. Or rather, the way it doesn't combine them at all, so the ...
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Seats on Boeing spaceships could go up for saleSep 18, 2010 11:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS -- Boeing and a space tourism company announced a deal on Wednesday to sell tickets on rocket rides to the International Space Station. Now Boeing just has t...
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Virginia colonial sites seek world heritage designationSep 11, 2010 11:00 pm - WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- Colonial Williamsburg is seeking the designation of the Historic Triangle as a World Heritage Site. The historic area says it is partnering with Pre...
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Art Institute exhibit focuses on ancient ballgamesSep 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Explore "Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico" at the Art Institute of Chicago and you'll see how ancient ballgames were played not o...
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Yellowstone breaks record for summer visitorsSep 11, 2010 11:00 pm - CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- This species in Yellowstone National Park is appearing in greater numbers than ever before -- people. More than 2.5 million of them visited the world's...
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Tourist crowds threaten Vatican's Sistine ChapelSep 11, 2010 11:00 pm - VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums chief has warned that dust and polluting agents brought into the Sistine Chapel by thousands of tourists every day risk one day endan...
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Yoko Ono installation seeks healing amid violenceSep 11, 2010 11:00 pm - BERLIN -- At the center of Yoko Ono's new installation is a perfectly round bullet hole shot through a large pane of glass that John Lennon's widow says challenges viewe...
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Fall foliage, Southern charm in Asheville, NCSep 11, 2010 11:00 pm - ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- They're called the Blue Ridge Mountains, but in Asheville in the fall, they might as well be called the orange, red and yellow. The city of 76,000 in ...
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Au pair reunion is good excuse for family tripSep 04, 2010 11:00 pm - COLOGNE, Germany -- There's nothing like having someone live with you for a year to forge a lifelong friendship. But you can't just drop by for coffee when that person l...