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		<title>The Urge To Burj</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burj Dubai, the world&#8217;s tallest building, is set to open to the public on December 2, 2009. This titan of towers is the centerpiece of a 20 billion dollar development project that is bizarrely ambitious and ostentatious even by Dubai standards. Other record-setting features of this enormous undertaking include Dubai Mall (&#8221;the world&#8217;s largest shopping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Diss The Kiss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarasota, Florida has finally embraced the 26-foot-high, painted fiberglass sculpture &#8220;Unconditional Surrender,&#8221; which depicts a sailor enthusiastically planting a smoocherooni (as they called it in liberated villages) on the lips of a loose-limbed nurse on V-J Day in Times Square. After a combative public hearing, city commissioners decided to accept a donation of the $500,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nude For Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re constantly coming across reports of public protest over nude statuary. Townships are always abuzz over art au natural. Three recent undressed uproars demonstrate that demands for modesty are often directed at the least sexy of sculptures.

	
	No Longer Controversial: David, Sioux Falls, SD.
Take &#8220;Journey To The New&#8221; in Delray Beach, Florida. This serious and spindly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lincoln&#8217;s Nose: Power Vacuum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Journal-Times of Racine, Wisconsin, reports that the city&#8217;s statue of Abe and Mary Todd Lincoln has had one of its noses snapped off, &#8220;for at least the fourth time.&#8221; This honker-hacking is treated as an instance of senseless vandalism &#8212; much as the recent dino decapitation in Durham, North Carolina.
But experience has taught us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Your Mini-Golf</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York, recently launched a new astro-attraction: Rocket Park Mini Golf, a valiant educational effort that attempts to teach kids about physics through the joy of amateur putting (And we don’t mean discovering how time seems to stretch out into infinity when stuck behind slowpokes trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn Off, Tune In, Drop By</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luckenbach, Texas was never a bustling metropolis. In 1904, its population peaked at a far-from-astounding 492. And by the 1960’s, Luckenbach was three citizens short of being a complete ghost town. Then, in 1970, a group of friends (Hondo Crouch, Guich Koock, and the normal-named Kathy Morgan) bought the entire kit and kaboodle for $30,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ironworld Loses Its Mettle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1990s, a tourist attraction named Ironworld U.S.A. was a popular stop in Chisholm, Minnesota. It had a teepee, a goofy-looking dinosaur, and a train ride along the rim of an open-pit mine &#8220;to enjoy the scenic wonder of an open-pit mine,&#8221; according to its brochure. It wasn&#8217;t technically accurate (cartoon dinosaurs rarely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cost in Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plain old earthbound tourism has seen plenty of price-cutting and bargain hunting in recent tight-fisted times. But when it comes to Space Tourism, the price is skyrocketing! Russian Space agency Roscomos announced that it is nearly doubling the cost of a trip to the International Space station. If you want a seat on the Soyuz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Temptation Of A Souvenir</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a tourist attraction succeeds, thrives, and endures long enough, it accumulates a storeroom full of old brochures and souvenirs. While many owners toss yesteryear&#8217;s marketing into the trash and merchandise into the 25 cent bins, some hold onto their creations. They open a &#8220;museum&#8221; about the attraction&#8217;s past, to put tourists in the proper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Counting in Your Road Trip Future?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug at RoadsideAmerica.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never occurred to us that travelers need to know -- in advance -- the step count at a tourist attraction. ]]></description>
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