Vacationing at Auschwitz (Time Magazine)
As more tourists spend their vacations at sites of disaster and depravity, a former war correspondent offers a word of caution ...more...Vacationing at Auschwitz (Time Magazine)
Tourists view photographs of victims at the Toul Sleng Museum in Phnom Penh, a former prison now preserved as a memorial to the Cambodian genocide....more... Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
* JOHN B. FAIRFAX, head of Rural Press, says the group's regional publications are finding sales difficult to attain in softened economic times. He says earnings could be 10 per cent down in the second half of the financial year. This announcement came ......more... Moscow Diary: Market forces (BBC News)
James Rodgers in Moscow examines the ups and downs of Russian-style capitalism....more... Fast Feedback (WSTM-TV NBC 3)
Organizers of the Juneteenth Festival in Syracuse held a communty meeting today to talk about the violence that shut down the festival last weekend. Two people were stabbed and 14 were arrested after a big fight broke out in Clinton Square. Most of the people involved are teens....more... Fast Feedback (WSTM-TV NBC 3)
A new study finds food and beverage costs have risen nearly 4% in the last year. Experts are placing most of the blame on the higher of corn due to increased ethanol production. At the grocery store, the prices of eggs and even soda have gone up, along with beef....more... Philadelphia Tourism Debuts New Series of Ads to Run This Summer (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Summer's here, and Philadelphia is ready to show potential visitors just how fun a trip to the region can be. The Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation will run the next phase of the six-year-old Philly's More Fun campaign to fuel the region's $27 million per day tourism industry....more... Housing Bubble and Real Estate Market Tracker (Seeking Alpha via Yahoo! Finance)
A roundup of articles and data about the housing market....more... Traveling secretary is key (Detroit News)
Each Monday, The Detroit News will examine an interior aspect of baseball -- intricacies that take place on the field as well as off. Today: Traveling....more... |