The Brief, July 17: Dirt Cheap Hotels, Game Show Dough
With a good dose of cheap (really cheap) hotel getaways and heap of sporty phenom news, the Brief takes you on a shortcut to today's best headlines. Whether it makes you smile for randomness' sake or makes you believe in the almost-impossible, these stories are sure to feel good.
A one-cent hotel rate was a lucky vacation-dream come true for some online shoppers. Let's hope that source of "human error" keeps his/her job!It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a physics-challenging anomaly of nature! The breakdown of an "epic run."And in other sports news — making lemonade from lemons. Tiger still our hero, makes golf better even when he isn't No. 1!White collar gaming: The league of laid-off Americans setting hopes on a new way to bring in the bucks in prime time game shows. Regis Philbin working overtime."Clever marketing in a downtime" or glorified camping — either way, it made us smile.
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