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Phones in flight? Charge $100 a minute

With the FAA considering a proposal to allow cell phone calls during flights above 10,000 feet, it might be again time to ask ourselves one question: How bad can it be to take the bus? Or the train?...

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World’s 10 Best Ethical Destinations 2014

Where travelers “want” to go is, more often than not, based on an emotional, romantic notion. They heard about that place in a bar, or saw a poster, or saw Anthony Bourdain go there, or saw it on one...

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Sochi’s whiny Western journalists need to travel more

Greek archaeologists, apparently, have unearthed new artifacts that prove that in the city of Olympia, Greece, during the first Olympic games in 776 BC, there was a shortage of 600-thread-count sheets,...

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Why is airline food bad? It’s a plane, Einstein

Exhaustive study and testing finally has answered a question that has plagued humankind since the Wright Brothers started brown-bagging it: Why is airline food so bad? According to a culinary expert...

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Carry-on Hall of Shame

We asked for your pictures of the monster “carry-on” luggage and industrial crates being passed off as “personal items” and you delivered. Here are the photos hashtagged #carryonshame that we believe...

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Airlines still need shaming over carry-ons

If we learned nothing else from going to the airport in 2014 it’s that, more often than not, U.S. airlines don’t seem to care if you bring more than one grossly oversized suitcase as carry-on luggage,...

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The Finest Museums in The World vs. Nature

Chicago’s Museums — Masterpiece Playgrounds Born and raised in Chicago, I felt I was a lucky child. Some of the greatest museums were on school field trip agendas.  Plus, I fondly recall many outings...

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