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DIAMOND in the rough
Exploring Albuquerque is like discovering a jewel within coal. Beneath the surface, the city dazzles with cultural highlights and a rich sense of history.
Anyone vacationing in New Mexico will have heard of Albuquerque, the city that's impossible to spell. But for most tourists, it remains nothing more than an awkward name glimpsed on freeway signs during trips to Santa Fe or Roswell or Carlsbad or Ruidosa. Even Bugs Bunny of cartoon fame talked onscreen about taking a "right turn at Al-bo-KOY-kee," rather than stopping in town to see what pleasures might be found there.
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By Jeff Guinn,
Star-Telegram Staff Writer,
10/21/2002 07:12 AM PST)
Forget the golf
PHOENIX - Not long ago, a friend was packing eagerly for a trip Phoenix. I asked him, "What's the attraction of a city that brings to mind stately cactus, canyons and desert critters?"
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By MARY FOSTER,
The Associated Press,
10/14/2002 06:50 AM PST)
Old West still alive in Phoenix
NOT LONG AGO a friend of mine was eagerly packing for a trip to Phoenix. I asked him, "What's the attraction of a city that brings to mind stately cactus, canyons and desert critters?"
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By Mary Foster,
ASSOCIATED PRESS,
10/14/2002 09:11 AM PST)
The other Las Vegas
Well before visionary casino builder Steve Wynn arrived in southern Nevada - and even long before mobster Bugsy Siegel was here - there were other major forces at work changing the desert landscape.
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By Ralph Vigoda,
Inquirer Staff Writer,
09/16/2002 08:53 AM PST)
Ancient pueblo ruins adorn dramatic Chaco Canyon
CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK, N.M. - The pinkish-tan cliff soars 80 feet above Una Vida, the ruins of a 150-room multistory stone pueblo built when Europe was in the Middle Ages.
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By SUE MAJOR HOLMES,
The Associated Press,
08/26/2002 09:09 AM PST)
New book captures the majesty of some beautiful Texas rivers
Art Chapman TEXAS AT LARGE
Wyman Meinzer is the official photographer of Texas, anointed by the 1997 state Legislature. As such, he has used his camera to chronicle the wildlife, the mountains, the plains and the very sky above this state.
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08/12/2002 10:10 AM PST)
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