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Good and bad of travel changes (The Wichita Eagle) - A smart traveler takes the time to review the big developments in travel, because these larger trends can inform your own vacation decisions. Some are awfully obvious, and yet deserve renewed attention: 1. The dramatic decline of the U.S. dollar. This affects not only a possible trip to Western Europe (whose euro and British pound have risen greatly in worth), but also trips to Canada, ...

Review: 'Stop-Loss' can't overcome flaws (CNN.com) - Through 2006, at least 81,000 U.S. military have been "stop-lossed" since September 11, 2001. That means they have been refused discharge and compelled to serve another tour of active duty, even though their original term has expired.

Music Review: The Wilders - Someone's Got To Pay (Blogcritics.org) - A talented, skilled, and passionate band who know how to bring great music to life. Probably most people don't remember the days when K. D, Laing used to show up for gigs in a wedding dress and claim to be channeling the spirit of Patsy Cline. She wasn't doing the middle of the road drivel that she passes off as music now either, she was playing a high energy country music that was the ...

MOVIE REVIEW: 'Stop-Loss' (Miami Herald) - It's been nearly a decade since Kimberly Peirce made the Oscar-winning "Boys Don't Cry." Her newest film, which she co-wrote and directed, might well carry the same title. It is about boys, fierce and fervent, who have enlisted to fight in Iraq. They don't cry. They joke, rage, seethe, shoot, sustain injury and complete tours of duty - only to be redeployed again.

Review: ‘Run, Fatboy, Run’? More like run away (MSNBC) - The overplayed manchild-comes-of-age genre gets no help from this lackluster comedy

Run, Fatboy, Run (Reel.com) - (2007) Starring: Simon Pegg , Hank Azaria Director: David Schwimmer Synopsis: An overweight guy leaves his fiancee on their wedding day. Years later, he realizes that he really loves her and must lose weight to get her back.

Shortchanged at our own history site (The Buffalo News) - Leave it to Buffalo to insult itself. Unless something changes, we will get a historic site at Erie Canal Harbor that downplays our page in America's story.

Movie review: "Run Fatboy Run" (The Record) - Directed by David Schwimmer. Produced by Sarah Curtis and Robert Jones. Written by Michael Ian Black and Simon Pegg. Photographed by Richard Greatrex. Edited by Michael Parker. Music by Alex Wurman.

MOVIE REVIEW: 'Stop-Loss' (The Charlotte Observer) - It's been nearly a decade since Kimberly Peirce made the Oscar-winning "Boys Don't Cry." Her newest film, which she co-wrote and directed, might well carry the same title. It is about boys, fierce and fervent, who have enlisted to fight in Iraq. They don't cry. They joke, rage, seethe, shoot, sustain injury and complete tours of duty - only to be redeployed again. "Stop-Loss," Peirce's vital ...

CAROLYN HAX (Washington Post) - Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend and I have been together five years, living together for seven months. He has been divorced 10 years. Last year, for the first time since his divorce, his ex-wife gave him an album containing pictures of them during wonderful moments together -- moving into their first...