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Jim Carey, director of concierge at The Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel and owner of black lab Catie Copley, works at the concierge desk, Saturday, July 1, 2006 in Boston. In the foreground is a photo album of Catie. Concierge Vincent Lago is in the background. The hotel launched its canine ambassador program in 2004 as a gimmick, using the black lab to showcase a multimillion-dollar renovation. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
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Boston's most famous dog enlivens hotel

AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:04 PM ET

BOSTON - The 94-year-old Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel spent $38 million on a facelift, refurbishing its soaring lobby with 21-foot-high Italian marble columns, gilded ceilings and Waterford crystal chandeliers.

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  • In this photo released by Forte dei Marmi Tourism shows an old fortress in the central square of the Tuscan village Forte dei Marmi, Italy in 2004. Nature and history have worked together to make Forte dei Marmi into an understated, luxurious retreat from anything that can mar a vacation by the beach elsewhere _ pesky things like heat, traffic, treacherous waters and busloads of loud vacationers. ( AP Photo/Federico Neri,Forte dei Marmi Tourism)
    Under the Tuscan ombrellone, no worries AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:07 PM ET

    FORTE DEI MARMI, Italy - Continuing to walk away with an apologetic shrug, arms raised to heaven as a witness to the inevitability of his statement, the man turned down the call from the ambassador's wife.

  • A live lobster is seen Sunday, June 25, 2006 at the Cape Pier Chowder house in Cape Porpoise, Maine. (AP Photo/Joel Page)
    7 ways to experience Maine through food AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:06 PM ET

    Lobster pounds and clam shacks. Pick-your-own berries and local corn. Whoopee pies and Italian sandwiches. Baked bean suppers and fiddlehead ferns.

  • Carter Campbell, 5, has a hard time sitting still in his seat Thursday, June 15, 2006, while attending a Toledo Mud Hens baseball game in Toledo, Ohio, with his family. The Campbell family traveled from Gallipolis in Southern Ohio while on vacation to attend a baseball game. A building boom over the last decade has turned drab minor league ballparks into showplaces of America's pastime. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)
    Minor-league ballparks: Fan-friendly, fun AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:05 PM ET

    TOLEDO, Ohio - Sitting at picnic table above the ballpark's left field wall, Susan Schaffer munched on sweet corn and a chocolate chip cookie.

  • Jim Carey, director of concierge at The Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel and owner of black lab Catie Copley, works at the concierge desk, Saturday, July 1, 2006 in Boston. In the foreground is a photo album of Catie. Concierge Vincent Lago is in the background. The hotel launched its canine ambassador program in 2004 as a gimmick, using the black lab to showcase a multimillion-dollar renovation. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
    Boston's most famous dog enlivens hotel AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:04 PM ET

    BOSTON - The 94-year-old Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel spent $38 million on a facelift, refurbishing its soaring lobby with 21-foot-high Italian marble columns, gilded ceilings and Waterford crystal chandeliers.

  • ASalecia Poles caulks a ship as her mother, Takiyah Dingle looks on, at the Frederick Douglas-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Wednesday, June 28 2006 in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)
    Baltimore: Visit historic black shipyard AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:03 PM ET

    BALTIMORE - Railroad tracks dip into the harbor next to an old, square, brick building in this rapidly gentrifying post-industrial waterfront.

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  • Sha Buchanant talks with customer Sony Bullock at Dreamland Barbeque Restaurant in Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday July 19, 2006. Dreamland BBQ Ribs, which started in Tuscaloosa, Ala., now boasts 20 Alabama locations, and two in upscale metro Atlanta. Dreamland is one of several Alabama-based barbeque restaurants that is expanding in the South and beyond. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin)
    Alabama barbecue restaurants spreading AP - 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Alabama's best export might be slathered with sauce.

  • A tourists uses his video camera as he stands near graffiti inscriptions saying 'Tourists go home, Oaxaca is anti-capitalist' at a wall in downtown Oaxaca, 500 Km (350 miles) south of Mexico City, Mexico, on Wednesday, July 19, 2006. More than a month of protests and blockades by striking teachers trying to oust the state governor have forced authorities to cancel the city's famed cultural events, including a traditional dance festival and as most tourists are staying away, the protests are costing the city millions in tourism revenues.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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    OAXACA, Mexico - Protesters have taken over the center of folkloric Oaxaca, making tourists show identification at makeshift checkpoints, smashing the windows of quaint hotels and spray-painting revolutionary slogans. Police are nowhere in sight.

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    NEW YORK - Attention smokers: Your world just got a little bit smaller.

  • JetBlue begins daily Raleigh-JFK flights AP - Thu Jul 20, 3:13 PM ET

    RALEIGH, N.C. - Low-fare airline JetBlue began four daily roundtrip flights Thursday from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to New York.

  • Bikini-clad sun worshippers and others flock to the Paris Plage, on the trucked-in sand along the Seine River, in Paris, Thursday, July 20, 2006. 'Paris Plage,' or Paris Beach, as the monthlong attraction is known in French, began in 2001 at the initiative of Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoe. The Paris beach, scheduled to open again this year for a month, offers deck chairs, beach bars and concerts. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
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    Perfect Midwest getaways AP - Wed Jul 19, 11:56 AM ET

    DES MOINES, Iowa - Looking for a Midwest getaway this summer? Midwest Living magazine's July/August issue has a slew of recommendations, from outdoor adventures to sophisticated urban hotels.

  • Check out West Virginia State Fair AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:02 PM ET

    It's almost state fair season again, but this year you could sample one of these annual harvest rituals in the middle of scenic forested mountains instead of flat fields of corn and soybeans. When you're done with the fair, you'll have those woods and hills to explore.

  • This is the cover of Lonely Planet's 'Code Green: Experiences of a Lifetime.' (AP Photo/Lonely Planet)
    Lonely Planet ecotourism: Code Green AP - Mon Jul 17, 3:02 PM ET

    OAKLAND, Calif. - Many travelers today are looking for ways to have a positive impact on the environment. They may stay in lodges that preserve nearby habitats, offset carbon emissions created by their plane trip by planting trees, or patronize restaurants that buy produce from local organic farmers.

  • This is the July cover of Travel + Leisure magazine. (AP Photo/Travel + Leisure)
    Best new places to dine in Chicago AP - Mon Jul 10, 12:22 PM ET

    NEW YORK - Up-and-coming chefs have created a slew of interesting new restaurants in Chicago, and the July issue of Travel + Leisure magazine recommends seven of the best. They are:

  • This is the cover of the Moon Handbook for Nova Scotia, by Andrew Hempstead. (AP Photo/Moon Publishing )
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