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Tasteless or not, most of the collections reveal an innate fascination with travel, invariably rooted in a time when trips seemed more exciting than they do now. One wonders if the overcrowded hub-to-hub travel of today is likely to breed as ardent a generation of collectors. Indeed, with...
The commission found that the CIA shares some of the FBI's recessive genes: 18 months passed between the time the agency was told that hijacker Khalid al-Midhar had obtained a U.S. visa and the time the CIA put his name and that of his traveling companion, also a...
In Manila, Philippine police bust a cadre of al-Qaeda members plotting to blow up 12 airplanes, a scheme they called Operation Bojinka (Serbo-Croatian for explosion). On a test run, the co-conspirators had planted a small bomb on a Philippine Airlines flight that killed one passenger. Officials finger...
For every item swiped from a plane, there's an eager collector waiting to bid for it. Each day on eBay, travel memorabilia swap hands - from TWA napkins of the 1970s to a large array of Concorde crockery and pepper pots. Judging by the amount of stuff available from the...
The bad news is that in India, you get first-class resorts built on a Third World foundation. Substandard road networks and power grids still place much of India deep in the developing world. While the government talks about revamping its decrepit state airlines and airports, it has yet to...