Word: travels
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...gain this year. "Our customers are happy to pay $3,000 for a Chanel suit or $800 for a Prada bag," says Nancy Husted, a spokeswoman for Denver's Neiman Marcus store. In Washington the Federal Reserve found vigorous spending across the country on items from housing to air travel. Barbara Szosz, a North Carolina travel agent, reports that her clients are traveling more, and more expensively, with trips to Europe, Australia and New Zealand increasingly popular...
...four extraordinary years between 1968 and 1972, when the U.S. was sending crews to the moon, the agency retreated to the familiar backwaters of near Earth orbit. Aside from a few high notes like the Hubble-telescope repair mission and the horror of the Challenger explosion, human space travel became downright dull. And with the first components of the NASA-led International Space Station set to launch within months, things seemed likely to stay that way. For a public that had grown to expect great things from NASA, this was pale stuff indeed. If anything could rekindle the magic...
...hear NASA's detractors tell it, Glenn is manifestly unfit for space travel of any kind. Flying into orbit more than a third of a century after he last made the trip, more than a dozen years after most people his age have begun retiring, and only months after the death of fellow Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard illustrated the frailties of even the most resilient flesh, is, they argue, at best showboating and at worst reckless...
...Travel '98, beset by fiery cruise ships and bouncing aircraft, led us to ask these intrepid globe trotters about their narrowest escapes from danger...
Former Monty Python member MICHAEL PALIN, host of A&E's travel series: "While filming in Novgorod once, I submitted myself to 18 straight vodkas. My system fought back. I raced to the washbasin, a monument to Soviet plumbing. It wasn't attached to the wall. Nausea hit as I staggered round, trying to keep 55 lbs. of basin from breaking both my legs...