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Sounds good, but watch out for the hidden catches. On most carriers, you have to reschedule your flight by no later than your original date of travel. Which means if you need to cancel that flight to Miami this week but don't know yet when you'll be able to take the trip--hey, even President Bush doesn't know when the war is going to end--you're out of luck. The airlines are allowing only one free change. If you pick a new date but have to change it a second time, you'll get stuck with...
Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: bookings for the Easter holidays are down 30%. The rugby games helped those numbers, at least for a weekend. It will take a week--the SARS incubation period--before doctors will know whether there's a price to pay for it. --By Jeffrey Kluger. Reported by Ilya Garger/Hong Kong
...Should I cancel my next trip to Asia? If you can. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advise that you postpone all elective travel to Hong Kong, mainland China, Hanoi, Vietnam and Singapore. The World Health Organization has issued a similar travel advisory asking people to steer clear of Guangdong province and Hong Kong. Toronto, however, should...
...were distributed, which fans were told to wear around their mouths. "When you wear them all day, the [bandannas] get all wet with saliva and sweat, becoming useless," said Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association. Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: since the disease hit, city restaurants have seen a 15% drop in dinner business, and travel bookings for Easter are down 30%. Rugby boosted the numbers, at least for a weekend. It will take up to a week...
...weekend scare headlines in USA Today, you may have fretted that the Academy Awards might cancel itself because of the U.S.-Brit invasion of Iraq. You needn't have. Eighty-six the Oscars? Not with half of haut Hollywood - the elite Democratic Guard - ready to make an antiwar speech, and the rest of Tinseltown ready to extend a hand and congratulate itself with the whole world watching. The film community was ready to give hundreds of millions of viewers a break from all-war-all-the-time TV, and a few winning films the chance to splash a statuette...