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Vicksburg Tourism: If you build it, they will come (The Vicksburg Post)
This is the first in a series of stories by staff writer Steve Sanoski and journalism students from the University fMississippi. On Monday: Success might come at home, and the Vicksburg National Military Park.
Golf booms on Mississippi Gulf Coast (Standard-Examiner)
GULFPORT, Miss. -- The hard winter in the north has golfers longing for the greens of South Mississippi. read more
Winelands Xenophobia (South African Wine News)
Neil Pendock runs a conspiracy theory flag up the Neethlingshof flagpole and waits to see if anyone salutes.
Game has changed for Atlantic City (Courier-Post)
Casino industry analysts had predicted gaming revenues in Atlantic City would decline to the tune of 3 to 5 percent a year for a couple of years after the introduction of slot parlors in Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS INDIANA: Philadelphia Street an anchor for Indiana and county (The Indiana Gazette)
Black and white and faded color photographs and postcards of Indiana's Philadelphia Street show various glimpses of life in the business district in past years. Shop owners proudly standing out front of their shops in the 1920 and 30s. Crowded streets during VJ and VE days in the 1940s.
Thanks and farewells for flower show's Pepper (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
In Philadelphia "green" circles, Jane G. Pepper is about as close as you can get to a celebrity. At the flower show, she can't walk five feet in any direction without somebody stepping up to shake hands, give her a hug, offer a hi, good luck, bon voyage, and "thank you, thank you."
Starwood Continues Worldwide Expansion with Opening of W Doha (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BERLIN----From the International Hotel Investment Forum in Berlin, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc announces today the opening of W Doha Hotel & Residences in Qatar – marking the entrance of W Hotels in the Middle East.
‘On the Edge' Banks Face Writedowns on FDIC Auctions (Update1) (Bloomberg)
March 8 (Bloomberg) -- A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. plan to auction more than $1 billion in assets seized from failed banks next month, including a loan to build a W Hotel in Atlanta, may trigger writedowns that weaken lenders nationwide.
Architect of Willis Tower and John Hancock Center dies (Chicago Tribune)
Bruce Graham, the hard-driving architect of the Willis Tower, once the world's tallest building, and the John Hancock Center, the X-braced giant that became a symbol of Chicago's industrial might, died Saturday at his home in Hobe Sound, Fla., about 100 miles north of Miami.
Fire Win Over FC Dallas; Set to Challenge Houston Dynamo in Second-to-Last Preseason Tune-up (OurSports Central)
CHICAGO, IL (March 8, 2010) - The Chicago Fire Soccer Club will finish its four-city, six-match preseason tour of the United States and Mexico with a match against the Houston Dynamo on Thursday, March 11 at 7:00 PM CT at the Carl Lewis Track and Field Complex in Houston, Texas.
