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7 trips you should never book online

January 16, 2010
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7 trips you should never book online

(Tribune Media Services) — Carolyn Fletcher’s honeymoon started heading south the moment she and her husband landed in Cancun. No one was there to pick up the newlyweds. It took an hour for her to convince a van service to deliver them to their hotel. But when they checked into their four-star resort in Akumal,...
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Rescued girl, 11, dies after bid to save her

January 16, 2010
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Rescued girl, 11, dies after bid to save her

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — An 11-year-old girl rescued from the rubble of her home Thursday in an hours-long effort has died, her family said Friday. The girl — one of scores trapped beneath buildings that collapsed in Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude quake — was rushed to a first aid station Thursday evening where doctors told her family...
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Real American Idol: Larry Platt “Pants on the ground”

January 15, 2010
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Real American Idol: Larry Platt “Pants on the ground”

LOS ANGELES – Pants. On. The. Ground. With those four words, “General” Larry Platt has gone from “American Idol” reject to Internet sensation. The 63-year-old civil rights veteran performed his original hit at an audition for the show’s ninth season, winning over judges Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi — and earning a nervous endorsement from incurable...
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