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Last-Minute July 4 Travelers Grab Vegas Trips, $92 New York Hotel Rooms Americans traveling this Fourth of July weekend may take advantage of last-minute deals such as $92 Manhattan hotel rooms and $200 weekend hotel-flight packages as the recession damps more extravagant plans.

Three-Star Chef Pic Feeds Jetsetters at Switzerland's Beau-Rivage Palace Mussolini negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne here, Diana Ross got married in the ballroom, Coco Chanel’s dog is buried in the garden, and now Anne-Sophie Pic cooks here.

Slaying Maltese Falcons, Rare Eagles Has Island's Birders Battling Hunter As evening fell at Mizieb reserve on the Mediterranean island of Malta, a dozen black kites migrating to Europe from Africa attempted to roost. Even with a European Union ban on spring hunting, gunshots rang out.

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Go Topless This Summer for $230,000 (Less If You’re in a Mini) One of the best things about summer is going topless -- the let-it-all-hang-out sense of freedom, the sun on your body, the lusty looks from passers-by.

Can’t Afford a Porsche? Step This Way for Hyundai’s New Coupe So you’ve been window-shopping on Porsche’s Web site, eyeing a new 911. The Carrera S starts at $87,000 and you want it with the seven-speed double-clutch transmission, an additional $4,000. And how could you buy your dream car without the full interior leather package for $2,100?

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Google Chief Says He Welcomes Bing Search Engine From Microsoft Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said he welcomes Microsoft Corp.’s new Bing search engine as his company benefits from its rival’s “continual reentry into this market.”

Bing a Captain Kirk Rule-Changer for Google: Rich Jaroslovsky In this spring’s “Star Trek” movie, cadet James T. Kirk defeats the Kobayashi Maru scenario, a battle simulation designed to be unwinnable, by rewriting the rules.

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Three-Star Pic Feeds Jetsetters at Switzerland’s Beau-Rivage Mussolini negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne here, Diana Ross got married in the ballroom, Coco Chanel’s dog is buried in the garden, and now Anne-Sophie Pic cooks here.

Ramsay’s London Restaurant Business Slumps to Loss (Update1) Gordon Ramsay’s London restaurant business swung to a loss last year as the chef closed eateries - - including Angela Hartnett at the Connaught -- and sales fell.

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Madonna’s T-Shirt Designer Audigier Expands Into Champagne French designer Christian Audigier, whose Ed Hardy t-shirts are worn by Madonna and Britney Spears, is selling champagne wrapped in his signature tattoo designs in an expansion of his $1 billion business.

Rare Bordeaux, Truffled Meals for 1,500 Highlight VinExpo 2009 Last week, I drank rare Bordeaux vintages until 2 a.m. every night and rose by 6 in the morning so I could sample wines from places like Turkey and South Korea.

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Three-Star Pic Feeds Jetsetters at Switzerland’s Beau-Rivage Mussolini negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne here, Diana Ross got married in the ballroom, Coco Chanel’s dog is buried in the garden, and now Anne-Sophie Pic cooks here.

Birders Battle Hunters Over Maltese Falcons, Slayings (Update1) As evening fell at Mizieb reserve on the Mediterranean island of Malta, a dozen black kites migrating to Europe from Africa attempted to roost. Even with a European Union ban on spring hunting, gunshots rang out.

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