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Mexico Beckons. On May 15 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted its ban on nonessential travel to Mexico. Now, a month since the height of concern over the swine-flu outbreak, the country's resorts are on a mission to coax back skittish tourists. Twenty Mexican hotel chains - including Zoëtry Wellness and Spa Resorts, Secrets and Dreams Resorts and Spas, Azul Hotels, El Dorado Spa Resorts and Hotels and Real Resorts - have instituted a "flu-free guarantee" that promises guests an H1N1-free vacation. If you do contract the virus, you'll get your next three...
...course, not all economic metaphors are as long-lasting as the housing "bubble." Back in the beginning of 2008, when we were all still skittish about actually using the word recession, one metaphor some people turned to was that of an economic "undertow": it takes you out to sea. But undertow didn't make it into the canon - do you ever hear people talking about how much the undertow is easing up? - which leads to an important lesson...
...travel would do nothing to stave off a full-fledged pandemic and, despite any ill-considered advice from Vice President Joe Biden, there's no risk for a healthy person in the U.S. to take mass transportation, but the truth is that many travelers these days are still feeling skittish about getting on a plane. In a recent TripAdvisor.com poll of 2,857 users of the site, a quarter of the people who responded said they were changing their plans because of the H1N1 flu virus...
...Push Following her leftist coalition's April 25 electoral win, Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir said she would pursue E.U. membership to ensure her recession-battered nation's financial stability. Analysts say the E.U. would favor Iceland's accession, but Sigurdardottir must sway skeptical coalition partners and a divided citizenry skittish about yielding sovereignty over Iceland's fishing waters...
...says Representatives are to be chosen "by the people of the several states." "The Constitution of the United States could not be clearer," Arizona Senator Jon Kyl recently said on the Senate floor. And while his opposition may have as much to do with politics as law - Republicans are skittish about a slippery slope that would lead to U.S. Senators from D.C., a Democratic stronghold - the definition of a state is surprisingly hard to pin down. While the U.S. flag has only 50 stars, D.C. is considered a state in other legal references, such as the Constitution's provision that...