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...hotel and car rental comparison site Kayak.com has just launched a new hotel review site called TravelPost, giving TripAdvisor a run for its money. TravelPost aggregates descriptions, photos and ratings of 140,000 hotels from 200 travel sites - including Orbitz, Hotels.com, BedandBreakfast.com, IgoUgo.com, Epinions.com and the hotels' own websites. Search by hotel name, star rating, brand, room type and location, and see reviews from other travelers. In true Kayak.com fashion, you can also filter the reviews by the writers' age, gender, budget, and style of travel (business or leisure...
...indexing and presentation of content looked clumsy in 1997 and 1998. It is incredible to remember that Yahoo! (YHOO) had its first day of 100,000 unique visitors in 1994. The company went public in early 1996. Google (GOOG) raised $25 million in 1999. In 2000, it was offering search results in ten languages. (See pictures of Google Earth...
...Sarkozy also plans to visit Brazzaville, capital of the neighboring Republic of Congo, and Niger, in search of business opportunities for French companies. French commentators have noted how such business-as-usual tightness with African cronies, whose track record on democracy and human rights often leaves much to be desired, contrasts with Sarkozy's earlier pledges to break with Paris' traditional Françafrique policy of turning a blind eye to authoritarianism and corruption to maintain healthy relations with stable African allies. (See pictures of the Pope's recent visit to Africa...
Benjamin Lichtenwalner was working as a cook in the Marine Corps when he got word that his unit's mission was about to change - drastically. He spent two tours in Iraq working in "mortuary affairs," a job that took him all over the country to search for, recover and clean up the remains of fallen soldiers - one of the most important and gruesome yet least talked-about military assignments. TIME spoke with Lichtenwalner about his experiences and why he and fellow Marine Ryan Sawyer decided to launch a company called Biotrauma Inc. in their native Georgia that performs similar tasks...
...they store bodies that have been decomposing for any length of time. So we went to that room and got to smell the stench of death. That was like the initial kick in the butt. Then after that, we had a month of classroom training. We would do mock search-and-recoveries out in the woods, looking for fallen soldiers Stateside before we were deployed. (See "A TIME Photographer's Iraq Diary...