Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, when Clemente talked about the difficulties of the Cornell-Columia road trip after the Cornell win, the clear implication was that Harvard had the superior team that needed to buckle down and avoid letting the travel and hostile environment...
Although the travel schedule, which began with a trip to Logan Airport at 5:00 a.m., and the vigorous winter break training probably tired the team, Harvard put those outside factors out of mind to stay in contention...
...Travel writing involves an odd social contract: writer, for pay, agrees to view inspirational scenery and have a great time, saving reader the trouble of doing so. But Mark Hertsgaard's contract was odder than most. A few years ago, the journalist, who has written books on the Reagan Administration, nuclear energy and the Beatles, set off on a trip around the world in search of noxious vistas and pollutive sunsets--the environmental wreckage that other travelers take pains to avoid. His clear-eyed report, Earth Odyssey (Broadway Books; 372 pages; $26), backed by careful scholarship...
When the U.S. first went to war in Iraq, one of the consequences was a revolution in telecommunications: Cable news became a force in the media, and the world woke with a shock to just how much and how fast information could travel, even in wartime. Eight years and what feels like several technological ages later, the U.S. went back to Baghdad. Has the Internet changed the way we experience...
...airlines are finally fighting back. Leading the way is Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Atlantic Airways. In the aftermath of the assault on Weir, who required 18 stitches, Branson engineered a British lifetime air-travel ban on Handy. As the industry convened last month in London to address the overall problem, he urged carriers to establish a worldwide air-rage database to blacklist the worst offenders. "There [must] be a deterrent against this behavior," Branson says...