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Only in Vegas can you eat Dinner in the Sky
cuisine in Las Vegas is one thing - but how about dinner suspended on a platform 180-feet in the air? That's the table that Kelley Jones set last week when he and partners broke ground for Dinner in the Sky, opening this summer, just due west of the Las Vegas Strip. Inspired by a similar concept in Europe, Dinner in the Sky straps 22 hungry and adventurous eaters, along with a very careful ...
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$ Siri Survey says most drivers led astray by GPS
If you've ever been led astray by Siri or her ilk - and by now, what smart phone user hasn't? - you'll relate to a new survey that says 63% of GPS-using U.S. drivers say the navigating device has given ...
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Roommates Turn Friends Room Pink in Viral Prank
The old saying, ';Boys will be boys,'; has never rung so true. How would you feel if you had just returned home at 1:30 a.m. from a two-month trip through Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines wanting nothing more than to sleep in your own bed, only to discover your entire room had been transformed into a pink, princess wonderland equipped with glittery furniture, a dollhouse and ...
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Calif. Couple Says I Do to Bacon and Marriage
Jun 18, 2013 2:26pm What says a lifetime of marital bliss? Nothing but bacon if you are Adrienne Dunvan and Eddie Quinones, the California couple who were married Sunday at the Big Bite Bacon Fest at the San Diego County Fair. Dunvan and Quinones of Vista, Calif., won their bacon-filled marriage ceremony and reception through a contest sponsored by the festival that promised an affair filled ...
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Cooperation can boost Myanmars tourism
tourism said. "We have regulated our foreign investment law, which is very user-friendly to international investors," U Htay Aung, minister of hotels and tourism, told China Daily. Singapore and Thailand now top the list of foreign investors in Myanmar's tourism ...
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Movie Review
Danger: Diabolik [DVD]
Danger: Diabolik is best known now as a candy-colored campfest, particularly after its popularity on Mystery Science Theater 3000. As a fragment of the psychedelic 60s, it is clearly a fascinating historical object, but all the ironic jabs and biting jokes made at its ... ...
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Torture tourism is reminder of cruelty through ages
You may think that the endless security lines at the airport are torturous - but they are child’s play compared with what heretics and criminals faced in the Middle Ages. Medieval torture was used both to extract confessions and to punish the convicted before execution. Torturers had a huge tool kit with which to practice their bleak black art. Nowadays, ridiculous torture exhibits are ...
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Airbus shows off Air New Zealands A320 sharklets
Le BOURGET, France - Air New Zealand's new livery was front and center at the Paris Air Show this week, but that's not the primary reason the carrier's Airbus A320 was on display. The Airbus A320 ...
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Worlds Most Spectacular Dog Vacation
What to do with the family dog when vacation time comes is a common conundrum. Most dogs end up in a kennel. Some with a family friend. Just one will end up on a $73,000 luxury vacation of its own. In conjunction with the Paw Seasons luxury dog hotel in Bristol, ...
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Report Carnival sues shipyard that took in Triumph
Carnival is blaming BAE Systems for the damage, according to Mobile's Press-Register Cruise giant Carnival is suing the Alabama shipyard that took in the Carnival Triumph earlier this year after it lost power at sea, Mobile's ...
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12 ways to protect your family on vacation
"The Safety Chick" Kathleen Baty shows off a variety of products you can use to protect your family while on vacation, such as a passport made with material that ensures thieves can't access your personal information, a cell phone hot spot to prevent browsing the web on public Wi-Fi and door anchors to avoid a hotel ...
On the record
Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
Hassan Rouhani
Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
Hotel Review
Stamford Grand, Glenelg, Adelaide, Australia
The Stamford Grand is a landmark hotel built on Glenelg Beach, about 11 kilometres from the City of Adelaide. A ...
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