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Where to go next: Tooshlights is the newest thing in traffic management, eliminating the need (forgive the pun) to peek under the doors of bathroom stalls to find an empty one, or guess which will be available next. The manufacturer claims the red light/green light system speeds up the bathroom line by 50% That’s especially
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Seats five comfortably, head-turning good looks, and costs $37,490 fully loaded with all kinds of safety features not usually found at this price. Ditto the paddle shifters and leather-wrapped steering wheel. I was even more impressed by the fuel economy. I clocked an impressive 51.6 average MPG, nearly 10 miles more per gallon than the
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Fly over Paris in a high-tech jetpack, past the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Champs Elysees and other famous landmarks and sites. It’s a dream come true, and the latest bit of travel technology to appeal to both tourists and residents of the City of Lights. The jetpack is real, as are the
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Scam Alert: The newest plague on our time and privacy is phony phone calls from fake caller ID numbers. When your phone rings and it looks like a local call from a friend or neighbor, you may be more likely to answer. Scammers count on this, and are now actively faking caller ID numbers that
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With peak spring an summer travel seasons about to heat up, it’s a smart move to bypass long and frustrating airport TSA security and US Custom lines with one of the special VIP passes available to ordinary travelers like you and me. If you travel more than a couple of times a year, the
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Life should be downhill in winter, and there’s plenty of great snow left to ski and ride this season. Simplify your spring skiing or snowboarding vacation with one of these FREE apps that track your runs, speed and vertical, even your kids and friends, and allow you to share the info. Warning – These apps
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Interest in Pocahontas peaks around Thanksgiving, because of her role in helping the first European settlers in the early 1600s. She was a remarkable woman, daughter of the leader of the powerful Powhatan Confederacy, which
dominated the coastal mid-Atlantic region at the time.
What a concept! The future will be here before you know it, and so will some of the concept cars manufacturers have been showing at auto shows around the world. Every carmaker spends millions on R&D, and concepts are an important preview of what’s down the road for design and technology, arriving in our driveways
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Scam Alert: Is that advertised summer rental a great find or an expensive fraud? These tips will protect your budget and save your vacation from being ruined by scammers, and other disappointments. Fraudsters often lift a legitimate ad from websites like Craigslist and add a bargain-basement rental price and a fake email address to reel
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Tickets are now on sale for a new, faster, and more affordable way to travel between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It’s a high-speed train. Starting in April, Eurostar begins whisking passengers between London to Amsterdam in just three hours, via the underwater Channel Tunnel, affectionally nicknamed the “Chunnel”, that already speeds passengers between London
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