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NYC’s MoMA to raise admission fee to $25 (AP)

NEW YORK – New York City's Museum of Modern Art is raising the price of admission.MoMA says it'll hike the price of adult tickets starting in September, to $25 from the current $20.It says the increase is needed due to escalating costs in virtually all aspects of operating the museum.It will be the first admission ...

Taiwan’s China tourism gain in doubt as polls near (AP)

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Campaigning for office in 2008, Taiwan's president promised an economic windfall of $2 billion a year by opening the gates to Chinese tourism. If Taiwan's tourism bureau is to be believed, President Ma Ying-jeou has achieved precisely that as he heads into elections in January for a possible second term.But interviews by ...

Denver bets on a county fair, aiming at hipsters (AP)

DENVER – Denver has an ambitious plan to revive the county fair: blend throwback chic with urban grit to draw crowds celebrating everything weird and crafty. Mix funnel cakes with drag queens, add a dash of old-time quilting and newly hip knitting, and the recipe could produce what organizers hope is a new flavor of ...

LaHood urges Congress to reopen FAA (AP)

WASHINGTON – Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urged lawmakers Thursday to pass a bill to put the Federal Aviation Administration back in business and put more than 70,000 construction workers and others back on the job.Nearly 4,000 FAA employees were temporarily laid off last Friday when Congress couldn't agree on an extension of the agency's operating ...

Post office closures would make long hikes harder (AP)

RALEIGH, N.C. – Hiking the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail already is grueling, and the U.S. Postal Service may make it even tougher. A plan to close rural post offices could shutter several outposts long used by hikers to receive food and gear as they walk the trail from Georgia to Maine.Closing the post offices in ...

Smoke in oven sends Air Canada jet back to Sydney (AP)

[unable to retrieve full-text content]AP - An Air Canada flight returned to Sydney airport on Thursday after crew members saw smoke coming from an oven in the galley, an airline official said.Article Source : http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/travel/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20110728/ap_tr_ge/as_travel_brief_australia_plane_emergency

First bike share program in Mass. starts in Boston (AP)

BOSTON – Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is set to lead a caravan of bicycle riders through the city to launch the state's first bike share program.The Hubway bike share program allows people to rent bicycles from one of 61 sidewalk vending stations spread across the city. Menino and 200 bikers are scheduled to ride through ...

JetBlue offers new unlimited flight package (AP)

NEW YORK – Call it All-You-Can-Jet: Business Edition.JetBlue introduced several new three-month, unlimited flight plans Thursday in an attempt to snare more higher-paying business travelers.BluePass is available only for departure from Boston Logan International Airport or Long Beach Airport in California, which serves the Los Angeles and Orange County areas, for travel between Aug. 22 ...

Continental cancels 24 flights over crew issue (AP)

NEWARK, N.J. – Continental Airlines canceled 24 flights Wednesday, most of them out of Newark Liberty International Airport, due to "crew availability" problems.Continental operates a large hub out of Newark and has about 3,000 daily flights system-wide. It was working to get customers on alternate flights.Airline spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said that the cancellations were "due ...