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30 »EXTREMEMAKEOVER »
In the businessworld, image
is everything, and corporate face-lifts canbe billion-dollar
questionmarks.
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36 »MANCHEsTER »
Ditch the guidebook and follow these
famous locals as they show you aroundEngland’s “Capital of
theNorth.”
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38 »VOICERECOGNITION »
Inaworld full ofmovietrailers,
ahandful ofvoice-overactorshavebecomeone-man (vocal)
armies.
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42 » LEAFPEEPING INTHEOZARKs »
With fall uponus,
leaf-peeping season is underway.
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46 »THEPURsUITOFHAPPINEss »
Puttingon ahappy
face is positively all in themind.
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