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...father was shot and killed by robbers when Paul was 3. As a kid, he built a radio set to receive distant magic signals, and in high school, a teacher nudged him into a radio booth at local station KVOO. Jobs in Salina, Kans., Oklahoma City and Honolulu followed just before Pearl Harbor brought him to Chicago in 1944. He stayed there, hosting a Jobs for G.I. Joe program, adding his signature phrase "the rest of the story" the following year. He got his own show, on WENR, with his wife Lynne, another radio pioneer, serving as producer...
Officials in Washington expect record crowds for Jan. 20 - record lines at the Porta-Potty too - and closing time at several hundred local bars and watering holes has been extended practically into the breakfast hour for celebrators' convenience. (Tourism is getting a boost outside D.C. too: in Honolulu, a $40 bus ride will take you to see where Obama scooped ice cream as a teen.) We have an economic stimulus plan, and his name is Barack Obama. (See pictures of Obama on Flickr...
...Obama's case it's simply the most accurate way to locate him. The roster of his past addresses includes some of the world's largest cities: Jakarta, Indonesia (9 million), Los Angeles (3.8 million), New York City (8 million), Chicago (3 million). Obama's hometown of Honolulu, with a population of 300,000, is the smallest place he has ever lived. Compare that with Hope, Ark. (pop. 10,000), or Crawford, Texas (pop. 789). "The last President who was grounded in a city the same way was Theodore Roosevelt," says Ed Glaeser, director of the Taubman Center for State...
Marriott Resort & Spa is offering a special surf package. Along with your room, you'll get to borrow a board and a surf jersey for a two-and-a-half-hour group lesson with the Faith Surf School. Rates start at $309 per night, through November. 2552 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu...
After loading his clubs onto a cart, Obama, wearing sunglasses, a white shirt, khaki shorts, white and brown golf shoes, and a red baseball cap emblazoned with the City and County of Honolulu's Ocean Safety logo, drove down to the driving range. Standing next to Whitaker, Obama , with a white glove on his right hand, took three practice swings. His first shot was a ground ball straight ahead. His next shot went airborne but created a divot that Obama walked out to pick up and replace...