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National Travel Health and Safety
Banning in-flight peanuts unnecessary
Travel Health and Safety
November 18, 2010
Those little bags of peanuts, especially the honey-roasted ones, that airlines consider a “snack” are a guilty pleasure for many...
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New travel malady: the San Francisco Syndrome
Travel
April 12, 2010
Travel hazards abound, from Montezuma's revenge to middle seat madness on a long coach flight. But did you know that there are at least three...
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Bridges near Costa Rican tourist spots collapse
Travel
November 10, 2009
It’s been a bad week or two for bridges in Costa Rica Last Friday, a bridge over the Río Rincón in Puerto Jiménez, on...
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Surviving urban China: an expat's story
Travel
October 24, 2009
As an American expat in China, James Fallow wondered “how much long-term damage foreigners do themselves” by living in “smoky,...
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Stem cell tourism hits Costa Rica
Travel
October 22, 2009
Alex Leff reports in the Global Post that Americans are coming to Costa Rica for stem cell treatments, which in the U.S. are often prohibitively...
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San Francisco sirens sound at 10:15 am today for statewide earthquake drill
Travel
October 14, 2009
At 10:15 am today, San Francisco will sound all 93 of its emergency sirens. Don’t be alarmed--the city-wide wailing is only meant to...
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Loma Prieta Quake's 20-year anniversary: street parties and a million-man duck & cover
Travel
October 14, 2009
This week, San Francisco commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, with a mass “duck, cover and hold on” event...
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What if air travel worked like health care?
Travel
September 30, 2009
Jonathan Rauch recently published a hilarious fictional dialogue in the National Journal that imagines what the travel industry would be like if it...
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SFO carbon offset kiosks first in U.S., but what ARE carbon offsets?
Travel
September 21, 2009
Are carbon offsets like a fat man paying a skinny man to lose weight for him? Not if you ask Gavin Newson, mayor of San Francisco, who helped bring...
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Should Medicare extend to Mexico?
Travel
September 15, 2009
U.S. senior citizens living in Mexico should have their medical care covered by Medicare, says Paul Crist, a former senator’s aid who now...
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