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• 'AAA Michigan says 1.2 million to travel over the holidays (WOOD TV 8)
DETROIT Triple-A Michigan says about one-point-two million people in Michigan will travel during the Christmas and New Year holidays. That's 20 percent more than...
• 'Ask Lifehacker Readers: Holiday Travel Tips (Lifehacker via Yahoo! News)
We've shown you our travel tips. Now it's your turn!
• 'Snow Showers Create Dicey Travel Conditions (WRTV TheIndyChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
Snow showers combined with icy roads left over from Thursday's snow to create travel troubles Friday for Hoosier motorists.
• 'Access to bridges free for Christmas travel (The Buffalo News)
The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission on Friday announced its Christmas gift to motorists: free travel on the Rainbow, Whirlpool-Rapids and Lewiston-Queenston bridges from 11:30 p.m. Christmas Eve to 11:30 p.m. Christmas Day.
• 'TRAVEL: Photo contest winners (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
The eyes have it. That was the consensus of the judges in awarding Barbara Steps' photo of a young monk first place in the annual Post-Dispatch Travel Photo Contest.
• 'Go World Travel: Seasonal Stories (Gadling)
The December issue of the online magazine Go World Travel arrived in my inbox the other day with some excellent seasonal readings to choose from. Two articles I especially enjoyed were Amanda Kendle?s Australian in Lapland tale (because it?s always fun to hear about Aussies frolicking in the snow) and Susan Van Allen?s story of La Befana (because I too, being of Italian heritage, know
• 'Travel agents challenge ?zero commission? move (Khaleej Times)
DUBAI ? More than 180 travel and tour agents in the UAE, in a rare show of unity and resistance, voted to challenge the "zero per cent commission" move initiated by some airlines and declared that they are determined to maintain their present levels of remuneration.
• 'Disability shouldn't stop travel plans (Baltimore Sun)
Travel Q&A Do the airlines accommodate a disabled person who needs restroom assistance from a relative? I have relatives who want to go to Australia from San Francisco.
• 'Cheney to travel to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US Vice-President Dick Cheney will travel next week to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, his office announced.
• 'Christmas cheer for travel sector as Asians take off (AFP Business News via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Asia's travel industry is enjoying an early Christmas with strong ticket sales as Asians take off for year-end holidays in the region, unruffled by fuel surcharges and warnings of a potential bird flu pandemic.

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