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ROUGH GUIDES ITOORS This series includes a literary stroll through London, a musical jaunt in Prague and a walk through Impressionist-era Paris. Listen on the plane or as you tour the cities...
...larger than they ever could have before the Internet tore down geographic boundaries, and this enables them to do some pretty special things. Airliners.net, a web site where airplane enthusiasts (they really do exist!) can gather and swap photos, has a database with pictures of just about every commercial plane in service, tens of thousands in all, and surely part of Wikipedia’s success is due to the community of people interested in organizing information which has sprung up around...
Next time around, when a hurricane heads for New Orleans, there will be city transportation to evacuate residents - as well as their pets. The trains will help in the migration. The city is working with airlines to make sure tourists with tickets get a plane ride out. But residents who stay are on their own, says Mayor Ray Nagin. There will be no ?shelter of last resort? for riding out the storm, no replay of the horrors that occurred after Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome or the Convention Center...
...upsetting as I expect it will be, I still would like to see United 93 [April 17]. That plane's story was the only relatively "good" news on that horrible day. When passenger Todd Beamer said "Let's roll!" and led those heroes forward in their charge on the terrorists in the cockpit, he was partly inspired by a Teddy Roosevelt quotation praising the valiant person "who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." This movie honors the passengers, and I will try to honor them by seeing it, no matter how painful...
...TIPS FOR TRAVEL Don't get squeezed To avoid sardine-like plane seats and bedbug-ridden hotels, check seatguru.com, hotelchatter.com or tripadvisor.com...