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• Ten scariest U.S. airports

  What's the scariest airplane landing you ever experienced? If it was in the U.S., chances are it was scary because of weather problems or a mechanical problem or the afraid-of-flying passenger sitting nearby whose fear was contagious. We don't tend to worry much about the airports themselves being a cause [...]

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• A traveler confronts the perils and technological shortfalls of roadtripping

  How many of you are planning to take a road trip this summer or early fall? Americans hit the road by the tens of millions at a time. Just over the July 4 holiday, AAA projected that 42.3 million of us would travel more than 50 miles from home by [...]

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• How a new law affected my delayed flight

  About 20 minutes into my American Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles Thursday, the captain announced that one of the plane's front doors wouldn't quite close and we were going to have to turn back. We would circle for about 10 minutes to get rid of some fuel,' [...]

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• Roadtripping tips for people with disabilities

  Road trips are an excellent vacation option for people with disabilities, says Candy Harrington, author of 22 Accessible Road Trips; Driving Vacations for Wheelers and Slow Walkers. Travelers can go at their own pace, pack all the equipment they want and take restroom breaks on their own schedule.

  Here are her [...]

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• Washington Monument may remain closed until 2014

  Repairs to the Washington Monument, closed to the public since it was damaged last year by an earthquake, will be more complicated and take longer than the National Park Service initially projected.

  A massive scaffolding will be needed to give crews access to the most heavily damaged sections of the monument, [...]

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• Fold-up road maps: Nostalgia or utility?

  Do you like to travel with an old-fashioned paper map, the kind that gas stations used to hand out for free, the one you could never fold back up right once you had unfolded it?

  With many people using electronic devices to find their way around – built-in navigation systems, hand-held [...]

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• Six injured in the running of the bulls in Pamplona

  Here's an update on the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Six people were injured, including a 73-year-old Pamplona resident, who was the only person who had to be hospitalized. The running continues daily through July 14.

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• Pamplona: Revelry today, Running of the Bulls tomorrow

  
  Check out these photos from the Associated Press of the kick-off of the annual San Fermin Festival, with the launch of a small rocket, partyers spraying each other with wine and water, people jumping from fountains, and general revelry. The festival, in Pamplona, Spain, is known for [...]

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• Faulkner's hometown marks the 50th anniversary of his death

  William Faulkner, author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and other books, died 50 years ago, but Oxford, Misssissippi, the town where he lived, is celebrating his life and marking the anniversary of his death on Friday.

  Faulkner’s home in Oxford is now owned by the University of [...]

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• 2 new retirees at Naples Zoo: cheetahs

  
  The Naples Zoo has got itself a pair of cheetahs, its first in decades. But unlike most new arrivals at zoos, this pair is retired. She is 13 and from Amsterdam, he is 12 and from South Africa. The Naples Daily News, which is the sponsor of [...]

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