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January 2003:
Guggenheim
- Las Vegas on Hiatus: ... BART to SFO Delayed: San Franciscans
anticipating new ground transit to the airport will have to wait,
as BART postpones opening its new $XX extension until March. Anticipate
a like delay for the city's rebuilt Asian Art Museum as well ...
Venice Gate Coming: To combat increased flooding of Venice's
treasures like St. Mark's Basillica, scientists will embark on a
radical plan to install an underwater gate system designed to reduce
peak tidal flows ... NY Subway Tokens Phasing Out?: Wracked
by rising costs and deficits, the New York Metropolitan Transit
Authority is considering dumping its once-ubiqitous copper tokens
- now only 9% of total fares - for Metrocards ...
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Endangered National Parks: Big-names like Yellowstone, Glacier,
and Denali top the 2003 list of endangered national parks released
by the NPCA. Also challenged: Everglades, Joshua Tree, Smokey Mountain.
Sprawl, pollution, and snowmobiies are the top culprits ... 2003
Anniversaries: The new year yields significant markers: Centennials
for the Wright brothers, Harley Davidson, and baseball's World Series;
75 years for the Academy Awards, five decades for the Corvette,
Playboy magazine, and camping favorite, Cheese Whiz... Venezuela
Warning: Continued economic and political turnbulance has prompted
the US State Dept. to issue a warning against non-essential travel
to Venezuela ...
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Five-Star Dining Shuffle: Among XX 2003 Mobil 5-Star Restaurants:
newbies in SF (Gary Danko), old faces in NY (XXX), Atlanta (XXX,
XX) ... Mickey, Movies in China: While Disney broke ground
on the Hong Kong Disneyland, a 310-acre park due to open in 2006,
China recently inked an initial agreement with Universal Studios
to open a theme park in Shanghai ...
TSA Packing Tips: To ensure smooth travel, the Transportation
Security Agency has issued packing recommendations. Among the suggestions:
Leave baggage unlocked, avoid cable ties, check pocket knives and
scisssors, bag toothbrushes so screeners won't directly finger them
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New SoCal City Pass: Count Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, Sea
World, and the San Diego Zoo among attractions included in new,
highly-anticipated Southern California City Pass, coming spring
2003 ... Tri-Carrier Codeshare Alliance: Three airlines -
Delta, Northwest, and Continental - will forge ahead with a new
code sharing agreement, depite competitor's objections and heavy
DOT restrictions designed to restrict anti-competitiveness ... NM
Changing Highway of the Beast?: NM Highway 666, dubbed "Satan's
Highway" and "Highway to Hell", may soon be history,
as legislators seek to renovate, and rename, this rural mountain
road with high fatality rates ...
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Jay Cooke is a San Francisco-based travel, food, and culture writer.
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