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My friend and I are not alone. According to a Gartner Group study, 42% of American e-mail users - and there are more than 100 million of us - check e-mail on vacation. Nearly 1 in 4 look for messages every weekend.
Her words had an unintended resonance last week as the country tried to make sense of chilling warnings from Mueller and other top officials who rattled off a litany of "inevitable" terrorist attacks against the U.S. as if they had all just been to a screening of The Sum of...
Terror alerts or no terror alerts, American feet are itching again. Travel-industry surveys suggest that most Americans will be taking a vacation this summer--though about 18% have scaled back their plans in response to Sept. 11. More trips will be taken Kerouac-style: on the road, on the...
We're among the hordes of travelers, most of us 40 and older, who elect to vacation in the saddle, at costs that range from $250 all the way up to $5,000 a week. "The average age on organized tours is going up," says Rick Lovett, author of The...
Thesiger feared this kind of development. "I went to Southern Arabia only just in time," he wrote. "Others will go there to study geology and archaeology, the birds and the plants and animals, even to study the Arabs themselves, but they will never know the spirit of the land nor...