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Phi lly gems Once inside, you stand above the $7 billion in cash that moves through the Philadelphia Fed every day. You can't see the money the exhibit replaced the tour after the attacks of 911 but the museum does a good job explaining the history of money, banking, and the Fed. The exhibit is also perfect for anyone, particularly teens and preteens, looking for buttons to push and games to play. The look of the exhibit is slick and polished, and everything was working the day I visited. For more serious students of banking, there are interactive exhibits exploring monetary policy, inflation, economic forecasting, and crisis management.

The See PHILADELPHIA on N4 By Jacqueline Bershad FOR THE INQUIRER I've lived in Philadelphia for almost 20 years and occasionally revisit the Liberty Bell or Independence Hall with out-of-town guests. I've seen the striking new museums on Independence Mall the National Constitution Center and the National Museum of American Jewish History. With a day off in the middle of the week, I decided to visit three of the more than 20 museums tucked throughout Philly's historic district. At the Shoe Museum, I was treated to a personal tour by the curator. In "Making Modernity" at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, chemistry is transformed into a dazzling display with cutting-edge exhibition design.

And "Money in Motion" at the Federal Reserve Bank engages with high-tech computer interactivity and billions of dollars. All are fascinating and free to visit. Right on Independence Mall, directly across from the U.S. Mint, whose popular exhibit is closed for renovations, is the "Money in Motion" exhibit at the Fed. While the Mint makes the money, the Fed manages it.

Visiting the Fed is a bit like going through airport security or getting beamed off the Enterprise. There is an X-ray for your belongings and a cylindrical glass magnetometer for you. Steep thrills: Hersheypark's Skyrush This Grand Canyon just never gets old fr'-- tl. 0 4P4, 1444,4,, -1 iIt, Or 1 Ai 11 i t- 4 4- iht l'. "')- -17." Pf I-74 II' 1111 A -T t--- -1111 'L-Nt '4 'f, I tr-- ledit-r.

1 1 I 4 0111...1 If WI -119v 5 s- .1, Or, ip 4 4 1. -a is.1 it itt- AlrodY. --4 1 4., By Tom Barnes PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE HERSHEY, Pa. Hersheypark's new Skyrush "super roller coaster" doesn't take long to give its 32 riders stomach-churning thrills. Right out of the gate, it goes straight up vertically at 26 feet per second along its bright yellow track.

It needs just a few seconds to reach a dizzying height of 200 feet above the ground. Then it drops straight down on a near-vertical path which takes just a couple of seconds, since it's speeding at 75 miles an hour banks sharply to the right, then takes a few more not-quite-so-drastic twists, turns, and bumps before coming to a stop. The ride lasts only 63 seconds. But excited passengers exiting the ride on its first day said they loved the thrill, short as it was. "Awesome that's about all I can say.

It feels like you're flying," See HERSHEY on N3 of them just beginning to turn a springtime green. "It's still a gorgeous, beautiful spot and we're glad we came back." The Geists are among the thousands of tourists, travelers, hunters, and sportsmen, from in-state and out-of-state, who every year drive to this out-of-the-way scenic rec3nds reation area in Penn-rigs, sylvania's Northern Tier, not far from the New York state border. The nearest town is Wellsboro, the Tioga County seat that was founded in 1799 by a Philadelphian named Benjamin Morris. The town's many restaurants, bars, shops, and hotels thrive from having the canyon just 10 miles away. See CANYON on N5 By Tom Barnes PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE TTOGA COUNTY, Pa.

John and Carol Geist, a Baltimore couple in their 70s, stood on the observation platform at the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon on a recent sunny morning and gazed down at tiny Pine It's irk Creek, wending its way along, 833 feet below. thou "This is the second of to time we've been here," hunk said John, who grew up in Lancaster and grad- spoil uated from the University of Pittsburgh. "The first time was 50 years ago," he said, when he and his wife were newlyweds. They looked out on the hundreds of trees that line the steep, rugged hillsides of the canyon, most In of hunters, visited by thousands tourists, and sportsmen. ed by i5 and men.

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