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Travel | 07/08/08
Budget travelers make friends and save money by couch surfing.
The Home Forum > Essays | 07/08/08
At markets overseas, haggling is a way of life.
World > Americas | 07/08/08
Passport confusion, a weak US dollar, and high gas prices appear to be fueling the steady decline.
World > Asia: South & Central | 07/02/08
Russians are flocking back to the Black Sea beaches, although a string of recent bombings exposes the breakaway republic's ongoing tensions with Georgia.

In Pictures China's green monster
An outbreak of blue-green algae plagues Qingdao, the host city for sailing events at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

ELECTION '08 Patchwork Nation
The American voter beyond red and blue

FISHERIES Empty Oceans Series
The sea is no longer so vast.


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