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links for 2006-12-26

• Airports Take Aim At Holiday Shoppers With Canny Planning | washingtonpost.com
  The airport duty-free store, not the mega-mall, has become the international multitasker’s holiday shopping center.
  (tags: shopping travel airport)
• Unhappy feat: biologists baffled as millions of penguins vanish | The Scotsman
  Global warming is suspected as the main force behind the huge decline in population of rockhopper penguins.
  (tags: penguins environment via:slashdot)
• D.C. Area’s Effort Against Crowded Roads a Test Case - washingtonpost.com
  The Washington area is the nation’s most aggressive laboratory for congestion pricing, a transportation innovation that is designed to cut highway congestion and subway crowding but that could end up costing commuters more in tolls and mass-transit fees.
  (tags: washingtondc publictransit)
• Rudolph and Santa, as Good as New | New York Times
  In Hollywood, a nip and tuck can often give an old star new life. So it is fitting that the puppets that starred in the 1964 stop-motion classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” are making a comeback after some cosmetic work.
  (tags: culture television christmas children museum via:tvsquad)