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Car maintenance tips for Valentine’s Day: Your car does not want flowers, balloons, or even candy this Valentine’s Day. It just wants a little love in the form of tender loving care, such as an oil change and tune-up. There’s no debating the value of preventive maintenance to keep Old Breakdown from living up to its name, and
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You can’t get any fresher fruits and vegetables than fresh-picked from your own backyard. When your backyard is The cuisine at Raffles Canouan in the Grenadines is fresher than ever, thanks to a new hydroponic farm on the resort property. The farm is managed by Sabrina Murphy, who has advanced degrees in both Agronomy and Agroecology, and it is thriving
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Here’s a way to get into a blockbuster art show — stay at a nearby hotel and get a fast track VIP ticket. The Ritz-Carlton Atlanta and Ritz-Carlton Buckhead hotels in Atlanta are offering special packages to the show on the life and work of Diana, Princess of Wales. Direct from the Althorp Estate in England, ancestral
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The top-rated green vehicle of 2010 is not the 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid, which tops most such lists. The greenest vehicle title goes the Honda Civic GX, powered by natural gas. Okay, the Toyota Prius is number two, and Honda Civic Hybrid claims spot three. The top three green cars list from the American Council for an Energy Efficient
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Here’s what the travel industry is doing to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake, travelers who have been affected, and how you can help, too: Travel Guard is providing free emergency travel and medial assistance services to travelers and families affected by the earthquake, including coordinating emergency medial arrangements and evacuations, temporary lodging, cash wire transfers, passport
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The Audi brand is in the fast-lane, for sure. Audi models have been sweeping awards at recent auto shows. Let’s start with the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, now underway. The all-new 2011 Audi A8 luxury performance sedan took top honors in the prestigious EyesOn Design awards, which recognizes — you guessed it — design. The A8 is a
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Thailand is known for incredibly beautiful pagodas, beaches, wonderful food and a warm welcome to visitors. Now, its national airline, Thai Airways, is adding green programs to protect the environment. Here’s part of what they are doing to help us all travel green — A reforestation program at Hui Sai in Cha-am district, Petchburi province
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The biggest winter carnival in the world is the annual Quebec Winter Carnival, in the heart of Old Quebec. This year’s three weeks of fun in the snow is from January 29 to February 14, 2010. Three weeks of festivities at the Quebec Winter Carnival include parades, fireworks, slide runs, a giant foot ball game, concerts, snow
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The new VW hybrid compact sports coupe unveiled this week at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show has received a best in show award from AutoWeek. The car is much better than its name, which is Volkswagen New Compact Coupe, or NCC. Every year, editors from AutoWeek search the halls of the world’s biggest auto shows,
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The horror of the devestating earthquake in Haiti is beyond belief. So are the creeps taking advantage of our willingness to help by launching scam Haiti charities. CBS News is reporting that links on Google posing as Haitian charities are really links to malicious software sites that may steal your identity or turn your computer into a robot
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