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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Fine Artists, Charlie Wilson, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Business, Stonefield (music group)
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Cannes bidder pays $1.5 million for Leonardo DiCaprio space trip
Zap2itHow much would you pay to travel to space? Now, how much would you pay to travel to space with Leonardo DiCaprio? One lucky person at the Cannes International Film Festival paid $1.5 million for that honor. The prize was up for auction at the amfAR...Tags: Virgin Group, Ltd., Angelina Jolie, Travel, Brad Pitt, Space Programs
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Cannes 2013: Leonardo DiCaprio space flight goes for $1.5 million
A guest at a charity auction at Cannes has paid 1.2 million euros ($1.5 million) for a trip into space with Leonardo DiCaprio. AmFAR, a nonprofit devoted to AIDS research, held the auction Thursday night at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc as part of its...Tags: Entertainment, Virgin Group, Ltd., Cannes Film Festival, Travel, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013)
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Many fliers willing to pony up for better seats, poll finds
Most of us will put up with a cramped middle seat on a short flight. But on trips more than three hours long, we are ready to crack open our wallets and pay for a window or aisle seat. That is one of the findings of a recent Harris Interactive poll of...Tags: Entertainment, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Virgin Group, Ltd., Harris Interactive Incorporated, New Products
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Virgin America lets you buy other passengers drinks, make pals
Virgin America is making it easier to befriend other passengers at 35,000 feet. The Burlingame, Calif.-based airline’s touch-screen entertainment units on every seat now have a feature that lets passengers buy drinks, meals and snacks for fellow...
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Break from U.S. carriers lifts passenger spirits
Flying foreign airlines can be so much more pleasant than our domestic options. On a recent KLM flight to Amsterdam, the Dutch airline behaved as if it was in the customer-service industry, not merely transporting a bunch of people from one point to...
Tags: Virgin Group, Ltd., France, Air Transportation Industry, Air France-KLM
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SpaceX signs lease agreement at spaceport to test reusable rocket
This post has been corrected. See note below for details.SpaceX, the Hawthorne rocket maker, has found a new home for flight testing on its reusable rocket. The company has signed a three-year agreement to lease land and facilities at Spaceport America, the state-owned commercial launch site located 55...Tags: Satellite Technology, Virgin Group, Ltd., Space Programs, Rocketry, SpaceX
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A balanced guide to success
The financial crisis fueled anger with the world's "takers" — those people who "like to get more than they give," in author Adam Grant's pithy definition. Everyone is searching for a sustainable formula for recovery that not only curbs damaging...
Tags: Jon Huntsman, Jr., Health and Medical Professionals, University of Pennsylvania, Psychologists, Book
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Under Armour founder Kevin Plank sees himself as the underdog
Kevin Plank may have sold the first Under Armour shirts from the back of his car, but as his reach has grown, so too have his wheels: These days, he jets around the world, recently to five Asian cities in six days, but managed to get back home to...
Tags: Randy Edsall, Central Intelligence Agency, Weaponry, Kevin Plank, Preakness Stakes
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Piers Morgan developing drama about Fleet Street tabloids for Starz
Art is imitating life again. CNN personality and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan is going to try his hand at producing a drama about the British tabloid business in the 1970s. Morgan has signed on as an executive producer of "Fleet Street," a drama...Tags: AMC (tv network), Virgin Group, Ltd., News of the World, Piers Morgan, Satellite and Cable Service
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Space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic goes supersonic in rocket test
British billionaire Richard Branson’s commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space when a test pilot cracked the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. For the first time, the company's SpaceShipTwo...Tags: Explosions, Virgin Group, Ltd., Boeing Co., Emergency Incidents, Space Programs
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Supersonic flight brings Virgin Galactic closer to space tourism
With a sonic boom that resounded above the Mojave Desert, a rocket plane belonging to British billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space. On Monday the company's...Tags: Transportation, Explosions, Virgin Group, Ltd., Tourism and Leisure, Travel
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