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BRATTAHLID, Greenland: Vikings: not just in Minnesota anymore. Travel writer W. Hodding Carter and 11 other hardy souls set off today on a 1,900 mile trip to retrace the voyage of Viking explorer Leif Ericsson from Greenland to present-day Newfoundland. Squeezed into a 54-foot wooden boat (called a "knarr"), expedition members will chart their course by the stars and sun and dine on the succulent Viking staples of freshly caught fish and moss and lichens to be gathered at beaches along the way. In true Viking style, crew members will rely on just six oars...
...week, on the heels of previous sales by American and TWA, United announced a new volley: round-trip specials, up to 45% off regular 21-day advance-purchase fares. United was quickly matched by six other major carriers. Deeper digging yields deeper discounts. Surfing the airline and other Internet travel sites is one route, with some carriers, such as American, posting weekly bulletins with weekend fare sales. Consolidators also offer fares well below published tickets. The downside: less flexibility and tighter restrictions...
...indeed. Though Pathfinder and Surveyor will be claiming the attention of Mars scientists for the immediate future, there's a small fleet of similar ships poised to fly. Every 26 months the orbital minuet that Earth and Mars dance around the sun brings them close enough to make interplanetary travel practical. NASA plans to take advantage of those exploratory windows, sending at least three other lander-orbiter pairs to the Red Planet in 1998, 2001 and 2003. In 2005 the agency hopes to exceed even these ambitious plans, launching the first-ever round-trip Mars ship, one capable of landing...
Anyone who believes that humans are the only intelligent life-form in the universe is ignorant and narrow-minded. Since we can achieve space travel, we can conclude that in this vast universe others have also done so, and that their technology may be even more advanced than ours, allowing them to reach other solar systems. There are a lot of people out there who are lying and just trying to make a buck from this phenomenon, but there is also validity. GENE PATTERSON Palmetto...
Despite the robust economy, the discounters are facing a dual predicament that is stalling their development. With a small number of planes flying limited routes, the upstarts can't tap the lucrative business-travel market. Instead, they're forced to low-ball fares to attract leisure travelers, a strategy that works only when planes are flying full--and their bigger competitors will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen. "It's very hard to make money feeding at the bottom of the barrel," says Perry Flint, executive editor of Air Transport World, a trade paper...