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- Stockholm tour for ‘Girl with Dragon Tattoo’ fans
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STOCKHOLM – Fans of the late crime novelist Stieg Larsson are getting lost in the Swedish countryside, searching for the quaint town of Hedestad featured in ” The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .” The problem is, it doesn’t exist. But international readers of Larsson ’s best-selling Millennium crime trilogy could be excused for thinking otherwise, because most locations in the books are authentic. Some of them include the Kaffebar cafe in Stockholm — a favorite haunt of Larsson’s fictional journalist Mikael Blomqvist — and the Kvarnen bar, where Larsson has tattooed computer hacker Lisbeth Salander spending evenings with her friends from the rock band Evil Fingers
- US rule could keep Iroquois from lacrosse tourney
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NEW YORK – The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse , but their team might not travel to England for the sport’s world championship because of a dispute over the validity of their passports. The 23 players have passports issued by the Iroquois Confederacy , a group of six Indian nations overseeing land that stretches from upstate New York into Ontario, Canada . The U.S.
- US rule could keep Iroquois from lacrosse tourney
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NEW YORK – The Iroquois helped invent lacrosse , but their team might not travel to England for the sport’s world championship because of a dispute over the validity of their passports.
- More delays possible from Yellowstone road work
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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – Motorists in Yellowstone will see more delays over the next few weeks because of road work. On the east side of the park, the contractor is gearing up to start work on a one mile section of the East Entrance road through Sylvan Pass
- LeBron James could mean millions for Miami tourism
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MIAMI – The Miami Herald is reporting that LeBron James is giving South Florida a boost already.
- Outrigger announces plans for Vietnam resort
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HONOLULU – Hawaii -based Outrigger Enterprises Group has announced it will co-design and manage a luxury resort to be built along the central coast of Vietnam . The five-star Outrigger Vinh Hoi Bay Resort and Spa will be part of the Vinh Hoi Bay Golf Resort being constructed along a secluded beach north of Quy Nhon in Binh Dinh province , the company said in a news release
- Mint.com can help you budget for next vacation
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Are you trying to figure out how to afford a vacation this summer? Or maybe you have your heart set on visiting Cancun for Christmas .
- Solar plane lands after completing 24-hour flight
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PAYERNE, Switzerland – An experimental solar-powered plane completed its first 24-hour test flight successfully Thursday, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night. The test brings the Swiss-led project one step closer to its goal of circling the globe using only energy from the sun. Pilot Andre Borschberg eased the Solar Impulse out of the clear blue morning sky onto the runway at Payerne airfield about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of the Swiss capital Bern at exactly 9 a.m.
- Govt says 5 May flights sat on tarmac over 3 hours
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NEW YORK – Five flights were stuck on the tarmac for three hours or more in May, the first month under a new rule banning lengthy tarmac delays, the government said Thursday. That compares with 35 three-hour delays in May 2009
- New Orleans back in Travel + Leisure top 10 cities
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NEW YORK – New Orleans is back in Travel + Leisure magazine’s top 10 cities list for the first time since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and its tourism industry in August 2005 . New Orleans took the No
