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    Ideas for Ridiculously Affordable Winter Vacations

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    Eco-Friendly Goes Luxe at 1 Hotel Central Park

    Hotel 1 Central Park (All photos: Hotel 1) Location: Manhattan’s chicest new green hotel is perfectly sited just a block away from the borough’s largest green space — Central Park. On the corner of 58th and Sixth Avenue, you’re also steps away from amazing shopping on Fifth Avenue, a stone’s throw from MoMA, and a 10-minute walk from Times Square.

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    'Jurassic Park' Redux: 13 Places to Feel Like You're Living the Movie

    Do you remember the first time you heard the deafening roar of the T-Rex in Jurassic Park? Twenty two years and two follow-up films later, the much-hyped fourth installment of the series, Jurassic World, is ready to make its own earth-shaking footprint when the live-action adventure debuts on June 12. From hokey theme parks and man-made habitats to must-see museums and tours through today’s wildest lands, these worldly destinations are for fans and explorers alike.

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    Buy Your Tickets to the New One World Trade Observatory Starting Today

    Artist’s rendering of One World Trade observatory (Associated Press)

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    Woof Woof! America's Best Hot Dogs

    Hot dogs unleashed at Senate in Cincinnati. (Photo: Gina Weathersby)

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    Maya Angelou: The Original Solo Adventuress

    Maya Angelou, the late great novelist, poet, singer, dancer, actor and all-around Renaissance woman was one of America’s first female solo explorers and adventurers. Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis and was scarred by a traumatizing early childhood. St. Louis is one of the settings for her memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. You can check out Angelou’s “star” on the city’s Hollywood-style St. Louis Walk of Fame on Delmar Boulevard — alongside plaques for other notable resi