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Associated Press
Legal problems threatened to beach the giant catamaran like one of the whales that environmentalists fear it will run over, so the company moved up the debut by two days.
More than 500 passengers and crew, and 150 cars, were aboard when the four-deck, blue-and-white vessel emblazoned with manta rays pulled away from the dock to a chorus of cheers.
NPR
Crime In The City
John Burdett’s Bangkok is far more than the bizarre murders, corrupt cops and big-hearted bar girls of his novels, which include Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Haunts.
It’s also the city as a living breathing, thing, like the Chao Phraya River that snakes through Bangkok’s center. The waterway is where Burdett’s narrator-detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep sometimes comes to unwind.
Trendhunter Magazine
There’s a class of modern day nomads that include homosexuals, and a new publication was written catered just to them. In “Traveling in our Fabulous World”, Donald Pile and Ray Williams go beyond the regular touristy sites to see, and make specific note of gay hot spots in different cities. From locales with gay history, to the best places to mingle with men today, the book is the ultimate resource for the savvy gay traveler. Explore the best of New York, Boston, Kansas City, L.A., and of course, San Francisco!
The Commercial Appeal
By Ansley Haman
Scripps Howard News Service
Excitement lurks along an 11-mile stretch of U.S. 129 that ties Tennessee to North Carolina
DEALS GAP, N.C — Kevin Tillinghast lifted the remains of his rearview mirror from beneath the scratched, red sport bike.
The broken metal became the Indiana man’s offering to the “Dragon,” a spiny section of Southern road named for its resemblance to the back of the mythical monster.
The Seattle Times
By Christina Siderius
Last week Trooper Tony Brock pulled over a Black Diamond man for cruising in the Highway 167 carpool lane with a dolled-up mannequin as his fellow rider.
It wasn’t the first time Brock had seen drivers resorting to creative schemes to bypass rush-hour gridlock.
The Seattle Times
By Nicole Tsong
BOTHELL — As one of 12 kids, Jayne Vitulli didn’t grow up with a dollhouse. But she has recently acquired the adult version — a vintage trailer named Miss Cutie Pie. And dolling it up has played a central role in her recovery from the loss of a beloved brother and from her own breast-cancer treatments.
Last spring, almost a year after her brother died, Vitulli decided she needed a project.
She chose a trailer, inspired by her four sisters who each have one, and in particular by older sister Marian Burns’ 1950s-era Bellwood “canned ham” trailer.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
The Associated Press
Feigenbaum, 38, of Virginia Beach, Va., is a rare coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying from San Jose to New York is a 1894-S dime, one of only nine known to exist.
He picked up the dime, one of only 24 known to be coined in 1894 in San Francisco, on Monday from the seller’s vault in Oakland. He delivered it to the buyer’s vault the following day, in midtown Manhattan.
BBC News
Hundreds of belongings left on the Tyne and Wear Metro system will go under the hammer at South Shields Market Place on Wednesday morning.
Christopher Boyd
Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
Fancifully named hotel groups such as Aloft and Cambria are preparing to go mano a mano with such old-guard icons as Holiday Inn and Ramada. The nation’s big lodging companies, which control most of the major brands, are gambling that the new hotels will resonate with Generation X travelers and their younger siblings.
Contra Costa Times
By TOM RAGAN
MEDIANEWS STAFF
Many believe the metal along Trafton Road could be the remnants of an old military airplane, unearthed by a construction company last week while digging a trench for a pipeline for the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency in Watsonville.