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No break this spring at the gas pump

With gas prices above $4 in some states, Americans are canceling spring break plans and rethinking summer vacation, and some tourist destinations are offering gas vouchers of as much as $50 to talk people out of giving up and staying home.

AP Photo/Steven Senne, file

In this Nov. 19, 2010 file photo, the Elms mansion is seen through an opening in an iron fence, in Newport, R.I. The Gilded Age mansions of Newport typically draw 800,000 visitors a year to marvel at their seaside opulence and fantasize about life as one of the fabulously rich. But a 28 percent drop-off in business since March 1 h...

 

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