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Chalk up another one for Twitter. I was surfing there last week when an opportunity came to win a facsimilie copy of Europe on $5 a Day by Arthur Frommer. The little book first appeared in 1957 and it revolutionized travel for thousands of North Americans. Wiley published a 50th anniversary edition in 2007, and happily, I was one of the lucky giveaway winners. What's the big deal about a book with highly outdated information from 52 years ago? Before this groundbreaking work appeared, most travelers were under the sad impression that visiting Europe was only for the rich. All others could read about the Piazza San Marco, Lake Geneva or the sidewalks of Paris in books. Frommer gave everyday people (like me) hope for visiting Europe by packing his little book with scores of practical tips. Europe on $5 a Day came out two years before I was born. But a generation later, Frommer was still writing and updating his original copy. I think the first one I saw was Europe on $50 a Day. The pri

The San Francisco heath department is mapping the city to show where the sickest AIDS patients live, part of an effort to identify where care should be focused.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forget the buzz over the next 'Twilight' film or James Cameron's 'Avatar.' The biggest entertainment hit of the holiday season may come on Tuesday, when 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' hits stores.

San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum is facing misdemeanor marijuana charges following a traffic stop in his home state.

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business was ranked as one of the top part-time MBA programs in the Southwest by BusinessWeek in its biennial business school rankings edition released today. Nationally, the UTSA College of Business part-time MBA program is ranked 28th. The MBA program was ranked fourth in the Southwest.

SAN FRANCISCO ? A federal appeals court will conduct a new hearing to determine whether San Francisco officials violated the Constitution by denouncing a Vatican order to not place adoptive chil...

The first public data on OssulinT a new oral insulin product, will be presented today at the 9th Annual Diabetes Technology Meeting in San Francisco, CA. OssulinT is being developed by Puredel Limited, a joint-venture between the European pharmaceutical specialty company CM&D Pharma Limited and Natreon Inc., New Brunswick, NJ.

WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The No. 1 program in entrepreneurship is coming to the nation's innovation center. Babson College's Fast Track San Francisco MBA is an accelerated, part-time 24-month program designed for experienced professionals who want to advance their careers while earning their degree.

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Slacker, Inc. today announced that the Slacker Radio app is available for Android phones. Music lovers* can now listen to their favorite Slacker stations on their Android-powered smartphone. The free application is available immediately by visiting www.Slacker.com from a supported** Android phone or by visiting the Android Market. Verizon customers using the new DROID by Motorola can locate the free Slacker Radio application quickly by visiting the Verizon channel of the Android Market on that phone.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- EBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay's plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion....