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The most renowned market for Native American arts surpasses its billing

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Here is the weekly update from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation about the closed Donora-Webster Bridge:

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The skies in southwestern Pennsylvania have been quite unusual and especially fantastic this summer.
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Fakery — it’s not just for Rolex watches anymore

Travelers know about fake Rolex watches, faux Louis Vuitton luggage and other cheap knock-offs, and when we succumb to temptation in a market or from a street vendor, we are not being gullible or delusional. We know what is being sold, and if we are willing to fork over a bit of cash for a look-alike, we know what we are buying. But when two recent posts by two respected travel bloggers on two sides of the Atlantic took up the topic of “fake” elsewhere on the web, I was reminded that fakery a dismaying trend in the travel-sphere, where the stakes are bigger than petty cash for an imitation brand-name product. Even seems that Internet users who would never send earnest money to some orphaned Nigerian princess or London barrister can be fooled by phony-baloney travel sites.

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Jonathan McMurray of Twin Brook Farm in Bentleyville, Pa., right, gives his Guernsey a trim before it’s entered into the dairy cow shows Wednesday and Thursday at Washington County Fair. David Robins of Venetia, a farm employee, is shown at left.

By Scott Beveridge

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Free and cheap iPhone applications for travelers

I think I have the most basic cell phone and service plan on earth. With my simple Nokia phone and pay-in-advance T-mobile plan, I prepay $100 for 1,000 minutes. The last recharge lasted me over 11 months. However, if I did spring for a more sophisticated communication device (like an iPhone), I’d install one of the applications for making travel information easier to obtain anywhere, anytime. USA Weekend made five suggestions for iPhone apps that it likes for travelers — and by the way, they’re accesible online too for mobile-phone Luddites like me:
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By Scott Beveridge

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Sorry, real visitors, that I have no enabled comment moderation. “Julie,” “Christine,” Rozydesouza” and other robotic or robot-like humans on the subcontinent have been spamming Travel Babel relentlessly. I am tired of deleting these annoying and irrelevant comments one at a time. As far as you legitimate visitors are concerned, I hate to spoil the instant gratification of seeing your comments immediately. But that’s the way it goes. Please bear with me — and do comment. I’ll approve as quickly as I can. Read the rest of this entry »