Betting on Las Vegas discounts
- 06/18/2008 11:51 AM CDT
Summer in Las Vegas means triple-digit temperatures and torrid travel deals. And this year, the discounts may sizzle.
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You can tell a lot about a hiking trail by its markings, and the abundance of blue splotches marking trees throughout the Alabama Pinhoti says plenty about the trail’s ambitions.
Summer in Las Vegas means triple-digit temperatures and torrid travel deals. And this year, the discounts may sizzle.
Many painters seem indelibly linked to the cities in which they lived and worked, like Canaletto and Venice or Vermeer of Delft. But paintings are portable and, a few centuries on, can often be dispersed far and wide, which is why one quarter of Vermeer’s output can be seen today in a 10-block stretch of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
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