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Article: Buck won't go far these days
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- Daily Breeze
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- March 18, 2004
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NEW YORK -- Texas college student Cheryl Halbert experienced
sticker shock on a visit to Rome in early March.
"We've spent so much on where we are staying and what we eat that
I'll be working all summer to pay it back," said Halbert, 19, from
San Antonio, who was traveling with Andrea Schweikhard, a fellow
student at Abilene Christian University.
Even a half-liter bottle of mineral water cost more than three
times the 75 cents the young women would normally pay back home --
two euros, or about $2.50.
Like Halbert and her friend, many Americans heading to Europe as
prime travel season gets under way will be disheartened by how little
a dollar buys.
The euro hit a five-year-high against the ...