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• Yosemite will require permits for Half Dome hikes, starting in May
  In an effort to better regulate the number of hikers using the cable system to the top of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park will begin requiring day-use permits for the popular climb when the cables are put back up in May.
• Museum of art lights up downtown Tampa
  TAMPA, Fla. - The $32.8 million Tampa Museum of Art, which opened to the public Feb. 6, rises on the historic banks of the Hillsborough River across from a Moorish, late-19th century, minaret-topped University of Tampa building that once served as headquarters for officers waiting to be deployed to the Spanish American war in Cuba. Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders passed through here.
• My mother road: Route 11
  Everyone knows that mother of all roads, Route 66.
• Washington state's Hoh Rain Forest revels in wet, wild ballet'
  HOH RAIN FOREST, Olympic National Park - Diamond drips of moisture cling to the tips of branches, and a soft drizzle eases from a thick quilt of clouds overhead.
• Next stop, Hogwarts: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opens this spring at Universal Orlando
  It will open in April, or maybe in May.

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