Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay home opening to tours (AP)

AP - The path rises through hardwood forest to the poet’s grave, in a small clearing with a bench that invites contemplation. It’s a short walk, maybe a half-mile from the country road high on the Taconic Ridge.

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Strategies for dealing with lost bags (AP)

AP - If an airline loses your luggage, your first stop should be the baggage claim office to report it missing. Your next move might be to buy a change of clothes

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Hannibal, Mo., marks centenary of Twain’s death (AP)

AP - When Ron Powers was growing up in Hannibal in the 1940s and ’50s, he would walk to the town’s historic district with a friend and marvel at the variety of license plates on visitors’ cars.

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Mall capital of Asia: When in Manila, go shopping (AP)

AP - The best deals are clothes, shoes and accessories. It wouldn’t be hard to find a pair of jeans for $5 to $7 and summer dresses for less than $10

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Visitors seek river views of DC’s cherry blossoms (AP)

AP - Visitors who want to see Washington’s cherry blossom trees can now get their views from a peaceful cruise on the Potomac River, away from the hordes of land-based tourists.

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Universal Orlando opens Harry Potter park June 18 (AP)

AP - The Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will open to Muggles for the first time on June 18. The Three Broomsticks Inn, Honeydukes sweets and all the other quirky shops in Hogsmeade village will open then too.

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1 trip, 3 Chinas: Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau (AP)

AP - In booming Beijing, remnants of ancient China are tangible in the Forbidden City. In Hong Kong, skyscrapers symbolize one of the world’s most successful economies. And in Macau, across the Pearl River Delta from Hong Kong, gambling generates more revenue than in Las Vegas.

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Museum takes new look at air, water, land and life (AP)

AP - Watch maggots munch on liver. Stand in the path of a flash flood

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When renting vacation homes, ask lots of questions (AP)

AP - With three adult children, Teri Hurley made sure to book a house with three bedrooms for her family’s Thanksgiving vacation in New York’s Catskill Mountains.

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Shanghai World Expo forecasts 70 million visitors (AP)

AP - Looking for the China of pagodas, farmers in rice paddies and Mao-suited masses pedaling bicycles through grim city streets?

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