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Travel briefs: New taxes? More baggage fees? Kid-free fly zones?
Anyone who has recently traveled to a major U.S. city knows the shock of finding a hotel, car rental or restaurant bill laden with extra charges. It's a growing trend among cities to add bed taxes, airport concession taxes and other charges to visitors' bills in order to fund tourism marketing campaigns, airport improvements and other projects.
5 Sep 2010, 1:17 am | click here to view more
North Caldwell native treks to northern India to see Dalai Lama
NORTH CALDWELL – Gaining a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan people’s spiritual and worldly leader, is not an easy thing to do.
3 Sep 2010, 8:40 am | click here to view more
Ill. woman climb highest peak on every continent
INVERNESS, sick. (AP) – Neighbors in Inverness have seen Suzanne Nance dragging her improvised sled mounted on skis and loaded with weights around outside, even when no snow litters the ground. As she labors hauling her cargo, some sympathetic drivers cease to offer her a ride home. The 50-year-old adventurer hardly needs transportation, as she’s [...]
3 Sep 2010, 7:55 am | click here to view more
Premiere week episode descriptions: ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox
From what's been released so far. Crude clip-and-glue job below... CBS THE BIG BANG THEORY "The Robotic... Full story at The Live Feed
3 Sep 2010, 7:06 pm | click here to view more
Travelling Around the World in a Gadget-Filled Ford Fiesta
Wired.com contributor Jeremy Hart is driving around the world in a Ford Fiesta. Along the way, he'll be testing gadgets from some of the most extreme — and amazing — locations.
3 Sep 2010, 3:33 pm | click here to view more
Victoria researcher teaching others to combat wireless radiation
Kerry Crofton travels with a land line phone, purposely stays in hotels that don’t offer wireless Internet in rooms and, when she gives her talk Tuesday night on the topic of wireless radiation, it will be in a downtown Vancouver venue selected because it purportedly has no such radiation.
3 Sep 2010, 1:00 pm | click here to view more
Final weekend at the Colorado State Fair
The final weekend of the 2010 Colorado State Fair promises plenty of fun--from Fiesta Day on Sunday, to Top skateboard and BMX pros of X Games fame putting on an impressive show. Here are highlights from the holiday weekend: Saturday Colorado Strongman Competition 10 am to 4:00 pm - Fountain Park 7th Annual road Vault 11:00 am-Girls/2:00 pm-Boys/5:30 pm-Elite Colorado Concourse "FIREHOUSE ...
3 Sep 2010, 11:29 am | click here to view more
Waterloo native has 'Wild' adventure
WATERLOO, Iowa --- Sean LaCoste had the adventure of a lifetimethis summer.
3 Sep 2010, 10:11 am | click here to view more
Williams travels with CFB Trenton officials
The questions kept surfacing at Quinte West city hall -- where did the mayor go on his recent vacation? For "security reasons" the answer wasn't released until tardy last week. John Williams was flown to the Canadian Force's secretin-name Persian Gulf base known as Camp Mirage on a special VIP trip.[...]
2 Sep 2010, 10:43 am | click here to view more
The New Ford Focus Extreme Climate Tests
The next generation Ford Focus has been tested in some of the most extreme locations on the planet - over frozen lakes, across the hottest deserts and up and down high Alpine passes to ensure impeccable reliability and dependability wherever it is sold.
1 Sep 2010, 5:29 am | click here to view more