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Whether you smooch them, tickle them or jitterbug around them, good-luck monuments can leave you feeling, well, lucky.

Real estate: Overview of homes sold in East Bay circulation area: Contra Costa County, some Alameda, Solano

Our sis site HotelChatter does a bang-up job of covering the latest news and trends in the hotel world. We’re also including a few links from VegasChatter, the newest member to the family. So check in and stay awhile. HotelChatter: · Foursquare + Hotels = Match made in heaven · What hotel have [...]

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Not all of our friends have the best luck with passports, which they carry in their pockets because they don’t want to leave them in cheap hotel rooms. Ditto for laptops, extra currency, and so on. Travelers always have to make a decision between what’s safer: carrying something around in a strange city or abandoning [...]

Vacationers take in the last splash of sunset from popular Ochheuteal Beach, a seaside resort area on southern Cambodia’s Sihanoukville peninsula. Not far away lie stretches of sand offering complete seclusion. “This Cambodian coast is low-key, without pretension,” says Kris LeBoutillier, who wrote and photographed the story “The Beach Beyond: Asia’s Secret Getaways” now out [...]

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A mere 10 years from now Audi expects 5 percent of its sales will be electric vehicles. That’s not the wishful thinking of tree-huggers or even the fanciful projection of some think-tank. It is the bold prediction of Michael Dick, Audi’s technology chief.
Audi is getting into electrics in a big way, creating a specific brand [...]