Word: roughness
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...first six months of 2006 were rough on checked luggage, with reports of lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered bags up 37% over the first half of 2003. And that was before emergency carry-on restrictions were imposed this summer, further taxing strained airline baggage systems. Overpacked bags and overcrowded holds can wreak havoc on the best-made suitcases, but if you choose your luggage carefully before you take off, you can avoid a lot of aggravation when you land...
...ROUGH AND TUMBLE...
Simon Schama’s latest book, “Rough Crossings,” offers compelling support to the argument that for a significant portion of North Americans—namely the tens of thousands of African slaves in the British Colonies at the time—it was the British, not the American colonists, who offered a surer shot at freedom...
...Rough Crossings” is Schama’s first book since the third volume of “Britain” came out in 2002, and it’s a return to form of the highest order. Instead of resting on his laurels and keeping to well-worn historiographical ruts, Schama seems to be using his fame to push a far more idiosyncratic project...
...Rough Crossings By Simon Schama Ecco...