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Mount Rainier hike: Scraped knees, big smiles
October 6, 2008If Mount Rainier were in Austria instead of Washington State, I likely would have explored it long ago. All my life, I've watched it shimmering Fuji-like on Seattle's horizon, and have never driven the hour off the interstate to actually take a hike there.
Pick up the phone, pay twice the price
October 6, 2008Joseph Dunlap runs into a snag when he tries to buy an airline ticket online for his mother. So he calls the online agency, Expedia, and is sold a ticket that costs twice the online rate. Do rates really vary by that much? Well, yes -- and no.
Travel Snapshots: Falling in love with Venice
October 6, 2008Washington's Union Station marks centennial
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Fanfare greets returning Intrepid
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Zoos go all out for Halloween
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The world's scariest runways
October 6, 2008It's 10:45 a.m. on a cloudy day, and the crew of Druk Air flight KB205 is preparing to land at their home airport of Paro, Bhutan. Suddenly, ominous warnings start blaring, alerting them that their flight angle is all wrong and their rate of descent is far too fast. They fly a series of unconventional right-and-left banks through a narrow channel of hillsides before centering the swaying jet and putting it on the tarmac.
Airfares aren't taking off everywhere
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Simpson jury: We relied on tapes, not witnesses
October 6, 2008The jury that convicted O.J. Simpson of robbery and other charges relied mostly on audio and video evidence -- and very little on testimony from prosecution witnesses -- jury members said Sunday.
U.S. bank failures likely to rise in next year
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