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Ever wonder where lost luggage winds up if it never finds its way home? At unclaimedbaggage.com the website for a 31-year-old store in Scottsboro, Ala., you can buy orphan luggage and cargo at a fraction of the original cost. The site has sold a wide variety of lost goods, including cell-phone accessories, a 75-carat aquamarine, even a suit of armor. "We often say that if these bags could talk, what a story they'd tell," says Bryan Owens, Unclaimed Baggage's CEO. How does the company get its hands on these goods? Airlines pay settlements...
...represents a real threat to DB's business. Raith says DB has aggressively cut prices for chemical transport in an effort to compete. A spokeswoman confirms that DB has been "passing on cost reductions to its clients." Responding to the competition, it has also expanded its service of chemical cargo trains, and struck deals with rail-freight operators in France, Austria and Switzerland to offer the sort of international service that Rail4Chem has been fighting to provide. Meanwhile, Raith has no choice but to buy electricity from DB's energy division, which sells it to him at 37% more than...
...read and reach. Volvo's designers added such nifty touches as a children's booster seat in the middle of the second row (a third-row seat is optional) and headrests on the rear seats that fold down if you want to use the interior to haul bulky cargo. The XC90 is premium priced ($40,795 as tested), but it takes Volvo's reputation for safety another step, offering such features as electronic roll-stability control and side-curtain air bags that protect passengers the full length of the vehicle. (The front end was even designed to reduce injuries...
Soon he was writing about horse racing for the Times, once researching a story by escorting a horse in the back of a cargo plane from race to race...
...recent monthlong visit to New York City, Ali Dickson drove from L.A. because the airlines deemed it too cold to allow her German shepherd, Summer, to fly in the cargo bay. She stayed nearly exclusively at Loews hotels, which offer doggie room service, Loews Loves Pets bowls and mats, and a dog passport to document her travels. The valets in Nashville, Tenn., had bones for Summer, and they let her owner know whether other dogs had checked into the hotel and what floor they were on. "She loved the hotel. When she got in the room, she would gallop around...