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vacation stories: 71 news summaries

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10 Sweet Spots to Visit

Willy Wonka may be a fictional persona, but these ten real-life fun-food factories will bring out the kid in anyone.

Aug 26, 07 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Travel & Leisure takes you on a tour of a fun-food factories, where delights range from twisting your own pretzel to sampling donuts hot off the line.  Some factory tours can even be experienced from home.
  1. Twinkie: Twinkies.com
  2. Tootsie Pop:  Tootsie.com
  3. Ben and Jerry's: 
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travel • Coca Cola • Hershey • list • junk food • vacation • Ben and Jerry's • Twinkie • Tootsie pop • Sturgis Pretzel • Kellog's • Hammond's candies • Jelly Belly • Krisy Kreme • candy • trips • tour

Top Thrills for Your Holiday Buck

Challenge yourself and whatever unfortunates you bring along in these nail-biting vacation adventures

Aug 25, 07 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Timid vacationers whose idea of a good time is a book and a beach chair need not peruse this list of adventures, compiled by Forbes.
  1. Dive with sharks in the Bahamas (cagediver.com)
  2. Fly a fighter jet in California (incredible-adventures.com)
  3. High-altitude skydiving in Memphis (halojumper.com )
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Russia • travel • Moscow • list • Bolivia • New Zealand • cosmonaut • vacation • shark diving • adventure • sky diving • cave tubing • Bahamas

One Unrivaled Market Force: Vacation

Stocks calm down as bankers, investors bail for the beach

Aug 25, 07 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FT leads with a prediction that market volatility will decrease over the next week for a simple reason: everyone's going on vacation. Major decisions by banks, hedge funds and mortgage lenders will be on hold as the financial world bails New York, London and Frankfurt for the end of... More »

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loans • finance • bank • hedge fund • vacation • markets • credit crisis

Sarko Kicks Back on Moguls' Dime

Families with ties to French Tiffany & Prada paid $60K for two weeks at US lakeside estate

Aug 19, 07 8:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Caving in to media pressure, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has revealed that his recent  luxurious vacation in the US was paid for by deep-pocket pals. The $60,000 two-week rent on a lakeside estate near Boston was covered by Agnès Cromback, the head of Tiffany-France, and financier Roberto Agostinelli,... More »

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Prada • Nicolas Sarkozy • Kennebunkport • vacation • Agnès Cromback • Tiffany France • Roberto Agostinelli • George W. Bush

9 Best Places to Spoil Yourself

Forget that city stress—these getaway spas will have you relaxing in no time

Aug 18, 07 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The nine most delicious getaway spa experiences, from the readers of Condé Nast Traveler.
  1. Mayflower Inn & Spa, Washington, Conn.
  2. Lake Austin Spa Resort, Austin, Texas
  3. Cal-A-Vie: Vista, Calif.
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travel • California • Texas • Mexico • Arizona • list • Connecticut • Utah • vacation • relaxation • getaway • spa • ranch

8 Tips for Traveling Solo

Traveling alone is a great way to meet new people and experience a foreign country.
—if you know how.

Aug 17, 07 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - Traveling alone is a great way to find yourself—and meet other people when you get sick of that company. Budget Travel passes along advice from experienced soloers:
  1. You'll be carrying your own bags, so pack clothes that can do double duty.
  2. Leave your iPod at home—you'll
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travel • list • vacation • solo • strangers

BlackBerries Save Vacations for Bankers
With Sand

It's required beach reading in a crisis

Aug 12, 07 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - As the volatile global markets continue to burn investors, tan-fan investment bankers are managing to keep tabs on crisis-threatened portfolios and still rack up required hours on the beach—with the help of their BlackBerries. The devices have become as de riguer as umbrellas and suntan oil on sands from... More »

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investors • beach • BlackBerry • market • global economy • vacation • European Central Bank • investment bankers • global market

Cheap Flights:
a Ticket to
Skin Cancer

Rise in beach holidays blamed for increase
in melanoma

Aug 9, 07 6:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors in Britain have blamed a 50% rise in the incidence of skin cancer on cheap flights to the beach, reports the Independent. Statistics from Cancer Research UK and the British travel agents' association confirm that easier access to sunny climates have made melanoma the nation's fastest-rising disease, particularly among... More »

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cancer • health • airline industry • beach • skin cancer • sun • vacation • melanoma

Zut Alors! Sarko Blasts Photogs on US Boat Trip

Jumps on board, demands they stop snapping pics

Aug 6, 07 5:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - Clad only in swim trunks, French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday lashed out at two US news photographers—screaming at them in French to scram—while he was vacationing with his family on a New Hampshire lake. "The president was very agitated, speaking French at a loud volume very rapidly,... More »

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New Hampshire • Nicolas Sarkozy • paparazzi • vacation • Lake Winnipesaukee • photographers

You're Right
to Feel
Abandoned If...

10 indicators the holiday-week fun has passed you by

Jul 5, 07 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The office is oddly quiet, your favorite parking spot is always free and your boss isn't lurking in the usual matter. What's going on? Here, the Boston Globe's list of 10 signs that you've been abandoned.
  1. You've rearranged your manager's office furniture and made a chalk outline of a
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work • list • humor • office buildings • vacation

Top Beaches 2007

Jun 11, 07 10:04 PM CDT
(Newser) -
  1. Ocracoke Lifeguarded Beach, Outer Banks, North Carolina
  2. Caladesi Island State Park, Dunedin/Clearwater, Florida
  3. Coopers Beach, Southampton, New York
  4. Hanalei Bay, Kauai, Hawaii
  5. Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Florida • travel • New York • beach • Ocracoke • North Carolina • list • Massachusetts • vacation • Hawaii • Maui

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