Moderate gas prices boost holiday travel Long lines formed at airports well before daybreak Wednesday, and some drivers in the South saw winter hit the roads early as millions of Americans made the annual dash home for Thanksgiving. The AAA estimated that 38.3 million people would travel 50 miles or more for Thanksgiving -- up a million from last year. Heat, humidity combine to torture East Record-breaking heat and oppressive humidity made people across the eastern half of the country miserable Wednesday and sent tourists in the nation's capital scrambling for relief in the cool marble halls of Capitol Hill. Ford to Shut Plants in Minn., Va. in 2008 Ford Motor Co., which is closing plants and cutting jobs in an effort to improve results from its North American auto business, said Thursday that it will shutter assembly plants in Norfolk, Va., and St. Paul, Minn., in 2008.
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