Travel
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Guidebooks follow travel themes
Jun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - Several new themed travel guides are out to suit different tastes and help you create niche itineraries. One is on the country's best zoos, another on left-w...
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Google Earth maps a 3D Disney World
Jun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - BURBANK, Calif. - Tourists overwhelmed by the mind-boggling size of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., will now be able to plan their tour with the help of a 3D Google ...
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Travel calendarJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Near Big music stars shine for Summerfest Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wis., June 26 through July 6. The "World's Largest Music Festival" showcases more than 700 artists on ...
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Missouri monastery provides silence, simple room for retreat
Jun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - CONCEPTION, Mo. - Remember quiet? It's that sound of not much at all, a fall breeze over a still pond, a car on a gravel road, frogs. Conception Abbey, which sits among...
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Hiking Ohio's Hocking HillsJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - LOGAN, Ohio -- The lavender orchid, barely an inch out of the soil, turned its dainty face toward the trail and its back on the sandstone slab looming overhead. In the w...
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Nature calls parents, kids to run away from homeJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Don't tell me your child has no interests. After this past winter, she has a Ph.D. in Wii and her brother is up to level 60 on World of Warcraft. And you? You might have...
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Five tips for getting on the plane prontoJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - What's the fastest way to board a plane? A free-for-all, like Southwest Airlines? Boarding by window, middle seat or aisle, like United Airlines? Or by zone, like AirTr...
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Flier had no place to park -- or sleepJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Q. I recently reserved a hotel room through ParkSleepFly.com, which offers hotel and parking packages near airports. Or so I thought. When I tried to check in at the Ram...
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Visit the Wisconsin home of America's theater royaltyJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Remember your first introduction -- perhaps in an English lit class -- to that restless teen, Holden Caulfield, in the J.D. Salinger classic novel "The Catcher in the Ry...
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Fliers pay a high price for checked-bag feesJun 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Last week, while boarding a Southwest Airlines flight, a perky attendant serenaded us to the tune of "On the Sunny Side of the Street." She sang, "Stow your bag and grab...