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Orbitz Offers Discount Rental Cars Online - Boston Globe
chicago— travel company orbitz worldwide inc. will allow customers to book discount rental cars through fox rent a car, the companies announced thursday. the agreement includes fox's fleet of hybrids, which travelers will be able to search for on ...
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Amesbury Discouraging Car Thieves
the police department and the governor's auto theft strike force are holding an auto glass etching day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. saturday in the police station parking lot on school street. for a fee of $10, residents can have their vehicle identification number etched on all the windows of their vehicle. the chemical marking, which does not ...
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Mass Transit In Hard Times
the existence of a great subway system is one reason why new york city has become such a world city. pope john paul ii called new york the “capital of the world,” and not just because the united nations is based there.
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Wanna Take A Walk? - Boston Globe
ziprealty.com has a great new utility on its site. it’s from walk score . it ranks a home in relation to how conveniently located it is to grocery stores, parks, restaurants, coffee shops, parks, movies, bars, mass transit stations and more. homes ...
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Winging It: Reader Says Southwest Has Unfair Edge - Philadelphia Inquirer
readers of the previous column provided a couple of prize-winning responses, among the best i have received since i started this endeavor almost two years ago. i don't have the space to report on both today, so the second one will have to wait for ...
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Drop In, Skiers
when most people plan their precious ski week, they usually focus on the offerings of the rocky mountains and destinations west. when new england skiing comes up, eyes glaze over and excuses pour forth: "the snow isn't as good; the mountains aren't as high; it's too cold," they say.
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Winging It: Reader Says Southwest Has Unfair Edge
readers of the previous column provided a couple of prize-winning responses, among the best i have received since i started this endeavor almost two years ago. i don't have the space to report on both today, so the second one will have to wait for next week.
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Homeless Family Victim Of Foreclosure - Boston Channel
boston -- the financial meltdown has another casualty besides people losing their money. families are losing their homes, and advocates expect the numbers to grow. newscenter 5's liz brunner reported thursday that a local family knows what it's like ...
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Jury Verdicts & Settlements - Daily Business Review
judge: stephen e. neel, superior court, suffolk county, mass. plaintiff attorneys: mario garcia, garcia law offices, miami; leo boyle, brad henry and michael bogdanow, meehan boyle black & bogdanow, miami; jeffrey denner, denner pellegrino, boston ...
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European Beauty
europe is closer than you think and less expensive than you'd expect, if you travel to the azores, an archipelago of nine islands in the atlantic ocean.
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Biking The Great Allegheny Trail
i was intrigued from the first time i heard about the great allegheny passage and chesapeake and ohio canal towpath bike trails making it possible to bike, traffic-free, 335 miles from pittsburgh to washington, d.c.
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Mass Transit In Hard Times - Journal Inquirer
and when they do, they know what to do, because europe is a mass transit, small car place. europeans are tram, or subway, people. the new york subway system is more explicable to them than it is to some people from indiana, or farmington. ditto ...
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Game-winning Drives That Weren't - Sporting News
you'd have to see kyle orton's two-minute drill to believe it. atlanta's jason elam could have clinched victory with a 33-yard kick, but his four good fgs on this afternoon have rendered his prehistoric foot exhausted. chicago ball. in between plays ...
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Tours Pull Out Stops In Tough Times
"when the going gets tough, the tough get going." in a time of economic crisis, when people tend to stay at home, america's tour operators have pulled out every smart tactic of marketing, whittled profit margins to the bone and have announced the most remarkable discounts -- to keep americans traveling. •  one company, atlas vacations, of brooklyn, n.y. (800-634-1057), is already offering a ...
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Updated 10/10: Calendar
tea time talk takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane to the golden age of radio at 1 p.m. oct. 16 at elmhurst historical museum, 120 e. park ave. presenter larry bergnach will demonstrate radio sound effects and share radio memorabilia from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
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Ithaca Aims To Be America's First "podcar" City - Huffingtonpost.com
ithaca, n.y. — the thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some. to jacob roberts, podcars _ or prts, for personal rapid transit _ represent an important component ...
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Surveillance State - Cnet News
how popular can a piece of software get before being in 'beta' is no longer a legitimate excuse for known software flaws? or, to put it another way, is it responsible to allow hundreds of thousands of people to install your product, when you know ...
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Homeless Family Victim Of Foreclosure
the financial meltdown has another casualty besides people losing their money. families are losing their homes, and advocates expect the numbers to grow.
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This Season's Hot Tech Gift: Navigation
(ara) - the holidays are fast approaching, and you're probably starting to think about gift ideas for those near and dear to your heart. whether you're shopping for a teenager, a college student, a friend, spouse or parent, you can't go wrong by giving the gift of technology.
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The Social - Cnet News
london--perhaps it's fitting that digg founder kevin rose chose the future of web apps conference here as the place to elaborate on his company's international expansion strategy. london, after all, has become the san francisco-based digg's biggest ...
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