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More Americans Saving For Vacations Than College Tuition: Report

Remember when Whitney Houston sang, "I believe the children are our future"? Nope.

More Americans are saving today for a big-ticket purchase in the short term -- like a car, a vacation or a home improvement project -- than for their children's college education, according to a survey released Monday by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards and the Consumer Federation of America.