Hurricane Cristina forms off Mexico just south of Manzanillo. American Airlines and US Airways to combine frequent-flier miles and immediately extends other benefits. Twenty more provinces in Thailand have nighttime curfew lifted. Cruise ships restricted to speed in Alaska as humpback whales return. Bear Crylls of "Man vs. Wild" fame, expands his survival academy program to the U.S.

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