Word: travel
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...only one aspect of their lives which I have not experienced first hand. All nine of my campers are of predominantly African-American descent. I am white. All nine qualified for the free lunch program. I have the luxury of spending over a third of my summer earnings on travel. All nine live in a housing project in which drug use and violence are common-place. I live at Harvard University when I'm not visiting my parents in southeastern Utah. The list goes...
...geeks have usurped an old financial term, disintermediation, and given it a new meaning to describe what happened to Britannica. To them it means the removal of middlemen, the intermediaries who smooth the operation of any economy--folks like travel agents, stockbrokers, car dealers and traveling salesmen. These people are the grease of a consumer economy, the folks who help you do things more efficiently than you could do them alone. But that's all changing: the Net is creating a new, self-service economy. Gates, who was late in recognizing the value of the Net, nonetheless has come...
...planning a trip. Two years ago, you would have phoned your travel agent. But now the complex, proprietary database systems that control the world's airplane-reservations systems are available online and free, reduced to a set of Web pages so simple that even technophobes can book a trip to Paris. And at sites like priceline.com you can actually tell the computer what you're willing to pay for a ticket and then wait to see if it can find an airline that's willing to take you. But will this replace your traditional travel agent? Do you really want...
...image of her worn body leaning against the steep green drop of the deepest gorge in China's Yunnan province has since remained to haunt me as I prepare to travel to the small town of Degen, less than 50 kilometers from the official Tibetan border...
...rest of China is changing. Domestic tourism is booming as the increasingly prosperous Chinese overflow into Yunnan's parks, ethnic music halls and village markets, gorging themselves on their newly acquired freedom to travel. Tourism, it seems, is one way the wealth of the coastal cities is being transferred to the rural interior, and I hope to help do the same by bringing in foreign currency as I help international travelers enjoy northern Yunnan...