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'Good Morning America' to name U.S. 7 wonders
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

NEW YORK -- ABC's "Good Morning America" has assembled a panel of travel experts to name the seven wonders of the United States.

The destinations - which will include natural landmarks as well as manmade wonders - will be announced one at a time over the course of seven shows, with the first one airing May 5 and the final one airing May 13. Each show will include a segment about the wonder, reported live from the destination by one of the show's anchors - Diane Sawyer, Robin Roberts, Chris Cuomo and Sam Champion - and three other ABC News anchors or correspondents.

Experts on the panel deciding the seven U.S. wonders are Annie Griffith Belt, a photographer for the National Geographic Society; Brent D. Glass, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History; Michael Roberts, executive editor of Outside Magazine; Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History; Patricia Schultz, author of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die," and the travel guidebook writer and editor Pauline Frommer.

In November 2006, "Good Morning America" and USA Today teamed up to name the seven wonders of the world. The wonders were Jerusalem's Old City; Mayan pyramids in Central America; the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument; the polar ice caps; Tibet's Potala Palace/Jokhang Temple; the wildlife migration on the Serengeti in Tanzania, and the Internet.

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First published on April 23, 2008 at 12:00 am
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