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Buyer Beware: Your favorite Starbucks beverage might contain as much as 25 teaspoons of sugar. That’s more than 1/4 cup of sugar and around 400 calories. Starbucks has just changed its Rewards program to reduce perks for purchases, but not the sugar content. Watered-down Starbucks Rewards program brews customer complaints 25 teaspoons of sugar in
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We’re all looking for the next great destination. My vote goes to Estonia, for historic architecture, the cobblestone streets, culture, fine dining and park land you expect to find in Europe, and for a lot less money than in what I call “the usual suspects”. Estonia is one of the three Baltic nations – Lithuania
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Scam Alert: Don’t let a romance scam break your heart this Valentine’s Day, even steal your life savings. The scammers and fraudsters know that online dating websites see a surge in sign-ups between New Year’s Day and Valentine’s Day, and are busy trolling for lonely men and women, especially older people living alone. Whether you
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This is a contest that should get you revved up: the chance for you and a friend to drive an Acura NSX supercar on a real racetrack. The contest is open to US citizens aged 18 and over, who register before midnight on February 18th. The Acura NSX brings a new experience to the supercar
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If your US Passport is expiring in 2016 or early 2017, or if you are applying for a first passport for yourself or a child, get your new US Passport now to save time, money and stress. More passports expire this year than in history, and the US State Dept. warns of a major backlog.
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January blues? This is a great time of year to find great travel deals, to escape cabin fever or just to escape. Take the chill out of winter and save money with these offers, including free nights and free museum passes. Caribbean getaway deal: Half Moon, a 400-acre luxury resort situated on a crescent-shaped white
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It was eerie driving on I-75 in Northern Michigan at 65mph recently without my hands touching the steering wheel or my foot touching the gas pedal or brake. While full-time autonomous driving is still years away, automotive technology already allows it part-time. I was test driving a 2015 Acura TLX, the new mid-size marvel replacing
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Happy New Year 2016. As we look back on 2015, the top stories on on ecoXplorer viewed most often were warnings and advisories about scams and frauds, including travel and cyber security, and best new car buys under $25,000. So we’ll try to bring you more stories like that in 2016. Here are the ecoXplorer
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The person next to you on the airplane, commuter train or movie theater sneezes, and you catch a cold, or worse, the flu. Whether you are traveling or close to home, here’s how to avoid the flu. First and most important, get a flu shot. It does not guarantee you’ll avoid the flu, but it
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Spoiler Alert: A rugged, isolated island off Ireland’s south west coast is wowing audiences in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The final scenes were filmed on Skellig Michael Island, a UNESCO Heritage Site. All we’ll tell you is that the plot focuses on the intergalacatic search for Jedi warriors, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). The closely
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