At Disneyland in Anaheim, the oldest of the company's four theme parks, the company is building California Adventure, a microcosm of the state that will allow the tourist in a hurry to visit Venice Beach, Napa Valley, the Golden Gate, a redwood grove and a host of other sights that in real life are inconveniently scattered, all in a single day.

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The Daily News, up for sale by Jack Kent Cookes estate, reaches 200, 000 daily subscribers in Los Angeles San Fernando Valley -- like Long Beach, part of the territory the L.A. Times regards as home.

FORBES: Encirclement

Last year saw a slight rise, but most tourists go to the beach resorts of the Red Sea, staying away from Nile Valley sites like Luxor.

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The dominant Los Angeles Times, for instance, now faces an encirclement of MediaNews dailies that range from the Long Beach Press-Telegram in the south, the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune to the east and the Daily News to the north.

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