Carolinians Grab Hard Hats to Tour Great Wolf Lodge the Carolinas Premier Indoor Waterpark Resort and Conference Center (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CONCORD, N.C.----Great Wolf Resorts, Inc.®, America’s leading family of indoor waterpark resorts, today welcomed Charlotte-area leaders, professionals and media for a hard hat tour of the more than $100 million, 36-acre Great Wolf Lodge site scheduled to open in Spring 2009.
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Football failings (BBC News)
Uruguay fails to tackle problems marring the sport
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Day with a Raven (Carroll County Times)
SYKESVILLE — The X’s on the kitchen calendar that began on Nov. 17 stopped at Tuesday.
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In Tomorrow's Paper (EdmontonSun.com)
How you can make your holiday shindig . . . You used to be able to tell that your holiday party was a complete bust when someone pulled out a video game console and fired it up. How boring must your gathering be if your guests prefer Master Chief and Mario over your cheese ball and charades?
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Children and obesity: Why parents are in denial and what they can do about it (Pacific Daily News)
Experts in childhood nutrition aren't surprised by a poll that shows 50 percent of parents who have overweight or obese children don't realize their children weigh too much.
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'American Idol' Daily video: Visiting the Christmas tour (Los Angeles Times)
A chat with Kimberley Locke, Diana DeGarmo, Chikezie, David Hernandez. and more.
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Holiday shopping: A guide to gift guides (Naples Daily News)
Need some help sorting through the dizzying array of gift guides? Here are some of the more distinctive gifts from the annual gift guides by major specialty publications.
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Club gets kids to try triathlon (Collier Citizen)
Golden Gate resident Sharla Mayberry has discovered the antidote to kids watching too much TV, playing video games all day or surfing the net for hours on end. Why it’s a triathlon, of course. A triathlon is like a marathon but with swimming and bicycling added. There’s no ball or no teammates and the only equipment needed is a bicycle and a helmet.
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Holiday how-to (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
Survival tips on how to take the festive holiday in small gobbles
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toy joy (The Columbus Dispatch)
Earlier this month, the stick was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Yep, an everyday piece of wood -- one that could become a sword, a scepter or a wild West pony -- joined the ranks of the baby doll and skateboard as classic playthings praised by the Rochester, N.Y., museum (which presented the same honor to the cardboard box in 2005).
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