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(CNN) -- The Department of Transportation fined Continental Airlines and US Airways on Thursday for violating the department's price advertising rules.Continental was fined $120,000 for excluding fuel surcharges in its listed fares, and US Airways was handed a $45,000 penalty for not providing information directly to customers on additional taxes and fees that applied to listed fares to Rome, according to a news release from the Department of Transportation."Protecting the rights of airline consumers is a high priority for the Department of Transportation," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. "Passengers have the right to know how much they will have to pay when they buy an airline ticket, and we will continue to take enforcement action when these rules are violated."The department requires airlines to include the full price to be paid by air passengers when advertising fares, including all surcharges imposed by the carrier. [Read the full article] (Matador) -- Summer in the U.S. and Canada is all about road tripping. Here are 7 of our favorites, some well known, others following country roads that only locals usually travel. All of them have plenty of room for improvisation.This big loop is all about National Parks, National Forests and some of the most unique terrain and wildlife anywhere in the world. Taking anywhere from 2 to 4 + weeks, you can go from the coastal rainforest of the Olympic Peninsula all the way to the alpine montane, geysers, and hot springs of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. [Read the full article] Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Few cities are as identified with a book as Atlanta is with "Gone With the Wind." But locating vestiges of Margaret Mitchell's epic story can be tricky. More than a few visitors have driven down Tara Boulevard, near the airport, and been disappointed to find a landscape that has little to do with Scarlett O'Hara's plantation house and everything to do with the Waffle House.Atlanta may not possess the antebellum charm of Savannah or Charleston, but if you're willing to look past the modern-day trappings, it has several historic sites that evoke Mitchell's legendary Civil War melodrama. Most of them are staging special events this summer to mark the 75th anniversary of the book's publication in June 1936. Here's an itinerary; follow it, and you'll even catch a glimpse of Tara. [Read the full article] 
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