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...tracking phone. Someone late for a meeting can no longer say he is stuck in traffic. His phone shows he is in the coffee shop just around the corner. A company called Glympse offers this tracking product for a number of smartphones. (See a TIME package on travel gadgets...
...Gotta Have Travel Gadgets...
...really depressed? "If she's really eating excrement, if she's displaying rocking behavior, that would be abnormal for an adult elephant in the wild," says Dr. Joyce Poole, director of the conservation group Elephant Voices. At the behest of Libera and FAADA, Poole plans to travel to Barcelona to examine Susi's behavior for herself. But based on her studies of elephants in Africa, she admits to a certain bias. "Personally, I don't think we should have elephants in city zoos," Poole says. "Elephants in the wild are active in mind and body 24 hours a day - listening...
Road Trips Made Easy. My favorite mapping system is AAA's TripTik Travel Planner. You don't have to be a member of the auto club to use it. Just go to the site, plug in your start and end points and the site will map the best route for you. If you don't like the suggested route, or you want to take a side trip, you can click and drag the route shown on the map, and the directions recalibrate themselves. TripTik also notes points of interest, restaurants, hotels and gas stations along your route...
...suspected cases of swine flu. Just over a week ago, Hong Kong released some 300 people stuck at a business hotel after cooping them up in a weeklong quarantine when one guest was found to be carrying the virus. The city, one of Asia's busiest business and travel hubs, was ravaged by the 2003 SARS epidemic as well as subsequent scares over avian flu. As a consequence, its counterpandemic procedures are among the most draconian in the world, while its epidemiology laboratories are among the most advanced. (Read "Battling Swine Flu: The Lessons from SARS...