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New Year's fireworks back to rooftops</title><link>http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/859886</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/c8b7c02a30789206f27428f8a1ed7330</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:16:05 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New Year&#039;s Eve fireworks will return to the rooftops of Las Vegas Strip hotels to ring in 2010 after ground-level displays disappointed revelers last year, event and county officials said.]]></description></item><item><title>Waikiki Beach gets first new luxury property in 20 years as Trump Hotel opens</title><link>http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/859482</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/699c7a672db529caba615c0762de6ac8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:45:21 -0400</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Trump International Hotel&Tower Waikiki Beach Walk, the first new Waikiki luxury property to open in more than 20 years, welcomed its first guests 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