A week without wheels (The Tuscaloosa News)
Reporter discovers how to navigate city sans vehicle
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BOOMj, Inc. Reports on LocalAdLink (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
BOOMj, Inc. http://www.BOOMj.com, the leading Baby Boomer Community and Local Advertising and E-Commerce Solution for the global marketplace, today announced that LocalAdLink, a local ad solution for the global marketplace, has signed up 300 independent sales representatives selling ads in local markets across the US and projects 1,500 by the end of December, 2008 .
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Industry watchers: Some last-minute cruise deals 'reminiscent of post 9/11' (USA Today)
Got an opening in your calendar in the next two months? If so, there are some cruise promotions out there that you might find hard to pass up.
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(No heading) (The Hendersonville Times-News)
CHICAGO - Leaders around the world flooded Barack Obama with congratulatory calls when he won the presidency last week. But they'll have to wait a while for personal visits.The president-elect has no plans to meet with any foreign dignitaries when they travel to Washington this weekend for an economic summit hosted by President Bush.
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Peek at the Week (Mount Prospect Times)
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Obama ahead or tied in 8 key states (The Gazette)
Barack Obama, gunning for a national landslide, now leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is essentially tied with John McCain in two other Republican red states, according to new AP-GfK battleground polling.The results help explain why the Democrat is pressing his money and manpower advantages in a slew of traditionally GOP states, hoping not just for a win but a transcendent ...
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AA frequent-flier change: Short flights earn fewer miles (USA Today)
American Airlines has become the latest big carrier to say it will reduce the number of miles customers will earn on short flights. Currently, AA customers earn a minimum of 500 miles per flight, even if flights are for a...
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Nuclear-powered passenger aircraft 'to transport millions' says expert (Times Online)
Nuclear-powered aircraft may sound like a concept from Thunderbirds , but they will be transporting millions of passengers around the world later this century, the leader of a Government-funded project to reduce environmental damage from aviation believes.
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