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    <title>Slate Magazine - Summer Vacation</title>
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  <title>Slate's summer issue.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  If you're college-age or younger, summer is most likely your favorite season—an opportunity to forget everything you learned over the school year, flirt with fellow campers (or camp counselors), and get a tan. If you're a working adult, the hottest months are a mixed bag. The weather's great, but your boss won't let you take the long vacation you deserve. You're not sure what to bring to your neighbor's backyard cookout, and you're worried your kids will forget everything they learned over the school year. It's the best of seasons; it's the worst of seasons; it's a Slate special issue. Yes, Slate's devoting its creative powers to summer.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2194053/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>summer vacation</category>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:14:07 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Can Six Flags survive the economic downturn?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The economic slowdown couldn't have come at a worse time for America's theme parks. An afternoon spent riding roller coasters, driving bumping cars, stuffing your face with fried dough, and waiting in 40-minute lines for water slides is, by definition, a discretionary purchase. Compared with other summertime diversion—movies, sprinklers in the front lawn, and public beaches—theme parks are pricey. So, it's no surprise that publicly held amusement-park companies like Cedar Fair and Six Flags have been suffering in the past year. The macroeconomic climate has presented a particular challenge to Daniel Snyder, the wunderkind Washington Redskins owner who took over Six Flags in 2005 and is trying to engineer a turnaround.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193874/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>summer vacation</category>
  <author>Daniel Gross</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:11:38 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Is it better for the planet to grill with charcoal or gas?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Barbecue season is upon us, and I'm wondering about the greenest method for cooking up my legendary T-bones and sweet sausages. Should I stick with charcoal, which I've used for years, or should I finally make the switch to gas?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193873/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>summer vacation</category>
  <author>Brendan I. Koerner</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:07:22 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Pasta salad doesn't have to be tasteless.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Pasta salad is the wallflower of summer foods: It almost always makes it to the barbecue, but no one quite remembers who invited it. At its plainest—elbow noodles, mayonnaise, a careless scattering of celery and onions—it is the embodiment of the midcentury American fear of flavor. Perhaps even worse is the "new school" pasta salad, which emerged in the '80s. It looks good: It's made with multicolored tortellini or fusilli in a thin, sweet vinaigrette and then gussied up with colorful canned olives and raw peppers or broccoli—garnishes that are the food equivalent of moussed bangs and shiny pouf skirts that can't make up for a fundamental lack of charisma. But pasta salad doesn't have to be mediocre. Anyone who has stood fridgeside nibbling at last night's lasagna knows that cold pasta has a certain appeal—it's just a question of getting the flavors right. At its best, pasta salad can get out there and party with the stars of the cookout: the steaks and salmon, the grilled corn and the caprese salads.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193822/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4198" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4198" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>summer vacation</category>
  <author>Sara Dickerman</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:14:04 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to make a summertime museum trip with kids worthwhile.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  In the middle of a recent hot Sunday, I found myself on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., with two tired children and a divided agenda. On one side was my ambitious plan to inject my kids with culture, first by hearing Russian-born singer Regina Spektor and then by trekking over to the FDR Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial. On the other side was my 8-year-old son, Eli, sinking into the dusty grass beside the path we were supposed to be walking on. "I want to go swimming!" issued forth as he collapsed, for the second time in two minutes. His younger brother, Simon, looked down at him pityingly and took up the chant.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2193823/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>summer vacation</category>
  <author>Emily Bazelon</author>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:13:05 EST</pubDate>
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